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H. L. Mencken Quotes

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American Writer September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956

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An enchanted life has many moments when the heart is overwhelmed with beauty and the imagination is electrified by some haunting quality in the world or by a spirit or voice speaking from deep within a thing, a place, or a person." ~ Henry Louis Mencken H. L. Mencken
The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it, cripple it, and make it forever infamous and ridiculous. Is it, perchance, cherished by persons who should know better? Then their folly should be brought out into the light of day, and exhibited there in all its hideousness until they flee from it, hiding their heads in shame. H. L. Mencken
All that the YMCA's horse and rings really accomplished was to fill me with an ineradicable distaste, not only for Christian endeavor in all its forms, but also for every variety of calisthenics, so that I still begrudge the trifling exertion needs to climb in and out of the bathtub, and hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense. H. L. Mencken
H. L. Mencken quote: "I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports..."
I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense. H. L. Mencken
H. L. Mencken quote: "A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to..."
A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there. H. L. Mencken

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