H.L. Mencken Quotes.

1. "the average man does not want to be free. he simply wants to be safe."
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2. "Democracy is the worship of jackals by jackasses."
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3. "He writes the worst English that I have ever encountered. It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it reminds me of tattered washing on the line; it reminds me of stale bean soup, of college yells, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights. It is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it. It drags itself out of the dark abysm of pish, and crawls insanely up the topmost pinnacle of posh. It is rumble and bumble. It is flap and doodle. It is balder and dash. (writing about US President Warren G. Harding)"
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4. "No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not."
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5. "The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal."
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6. "It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics and chemistry."
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7. "Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt."
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8. "Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods."
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9. "The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable."
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10. "You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something."
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