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Quotes from A Little Book in C Major — H. L. Mencken

1880–1956 United States

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Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got used to it.

A Little Book in C Major (1916)

On one issue, at least, men and women agree: they both distrust women.

A Little Book in C Major (1916)

Bachelors know more about women than married men. If they didn't, they'd be married, too.

A Little Book in C Major (1916)

Socialism is the theory that the desire of one man to get something he hasn't got is more pleasing to a just God than the desire of some other man to keep what he has got.

A Little Book in C Major (1916)

The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think.

A Little Book in C Major (1916)

At the bottom of Puritanism one finds envy of the fellow who is having a better time in the world, and hence hatred of him. At the bottom of democracy one finds the same thing. This is why all Puritans are democrats and all democrats are Puritans.

A Little Book in C Major (1916)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: H. L. Mencken (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.