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“The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.”

— H. L. Mencken · Money

“Never let your inferiors do you a favor - it will be extremely costly.”

— H. L. Mencken · No category

“The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.”

— H. L. Mencken · Honor

“Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.”

— H. L. Mencken · No category

“A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.”

— H. L. Mencken · No category

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”

— H. L. Mencken · No category

“In this world of sin and sorrow, there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.”

— H. L. Mencken · No category

“If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be ineligible for any office of trust in the United States.”

— H. L. Mencken · No category

“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”

— H. L. Mencken · No category

“A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.”

— H. L. Mencken · No category

“A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.”

— H. L. Mencken · No category

“Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.”

— H. L. Mencken · No category

“The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.”

— H. L. Mencken · No category

“A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.”

— H. L. Mencken · No category

“Wife: one who is sorry she did it, but would undoubtedly do it again.”

— H. L. Mencken · No category

“Democracy: The worship of jackals by jackasses.”

— H. L. Mencken · No category

“Wife: a former sweetheart.”

— H. L. Mencken · No category

“Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.”

— H. L. Mencken · No category

“Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.”

— H. L. Mencken · No category

“Creator: a comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh.”

— H. L. Mencken · No category