Henry Louis Mencken

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"For men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt."	Doubt, Lies, Men
"There is always an easy solution to every human problem -- neat, plausible, and wrong."	Men
"To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia--to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess."	Age, Love, Men
"The only cure for contempt is countercontempt."	Miscellaneous
"Love is the triump of imagination over intelligence."	Imagination, Intelligence, Love
"The cynics are right nine times out of ten."	Change, Time
"Criticism is prejudice made plausible."	Criticism
"Life is a dead-end street."	Death, Life
"It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place."	Honesty, Knowledge, Lies
"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."	Imagination, Men, Politics
"Love is the mistaken belief that one woman differs from another."	Faith, Lies, Love
"A man always blames the woman who fooled him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark."	Darkness, Light, Men
"Legend: a lie that has attained the dignity of age."	Age, Lies
"Time is the great legalizer, even in the field of morals."	Excellence, Law, Time
"Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages."	Age, America, Taxes
"For every problem, there is one solution which is simple, neat and wrong."	Miscellaneous
"Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking."	Military, Monarchy, War
"A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground."	Politics
"Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too."	Knowledge, Men, Wisdom
"...the basic delusion that men may be governed and yet be free."	Freedom, Government, Liberty
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