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Re: ~ Henry Mencken Quotes ~
« Reply #60 on: October 12, 2014, 11:39:55 AM »
Penetrating so many secrets we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless calmly licking its chops.

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Re: ~ Henry Mencken Quotes ~
« Reply #61 on: October 12, 2014, 11:40:28 AM »
Say what you will about the Ten Commandments you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

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Re: ~ Henry Mencken Quotes ~
« Reply #62 on: October 12, 2014, 11:41:02 AM »
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.

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Re: ~ Henry Mencken Quotes ~
« Reply #63 on: October 12, 2014, 11:41:35 AM »
No matter how happily a woman may be married it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes she were not.

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Re: ~ Henry Mencken Quotes ~
« Reply #64 on: October 12, 2014, 11:42:10 AM »
It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise just and omnipotent God but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

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Re: ~ Henry Mencken Quotes ~
« Reply #65 on: October 12, 2014, 11:42:42 AM »
One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

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Re: ~ Henry Mencken Quotes ~
« Reply #66 on: October 12, 2014, 11:43:13 AM »
If after I depart this vale you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

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Re: ~ Henry Mencken Quotes ~
« Reply #67 on: October 12, 2014, 11:43:48 AM »
Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage clear thinking honesty fairness and above all love of the truth.

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Re: ~ Henry Mencken Quotes ~
« Reply #68 on: October 12, 2014, 11:44:42 AM »
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

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Re: ~ Henry Mencken Quotes ~
« Reply #69 on: October 12, 2014, 11:45:15 AM »
The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear-fear of the unknown the complex the inexplicable. What he wants beyond everything else is safety.

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Re: ~ Henry Mencken Quotes ~
« Reply #70 on: October 12, 2014, 11:45:48 AM »
Unionism seldom if ever uses such powers as it has to ensure better work; almost always it devotes a large part of that power to safeguarding bad work.

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Re: ~ Henry Mencken Quotes ~
« Reply #71 on: October 12, 2014, 11:46:22 AM »
The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown the complex the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

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Re: ~ Henry Mencken Quotes ~
« Reply #72 on: October 12, 2014, 11:46:55 AM »
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.

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Re: ~ Henry Mencken Quotes ~
« Reply #73 on: October 12, 2014, 11:47:31 AM »
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 or chemistry.

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Re: ~ Henry Mencken Quotes ~
« Reply #74 on: October 12, 2014, 11:48:06 AM »
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual anesthesia: To mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.