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Henry Louis "H. L." Mencken, was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture, and a student of American English. Mencken, known as the "Sage of Baltimore", is regarded as one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the first half of the 20th century. Find out more about H. L. Mencken quotes on H. L. Mencken's biography.

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Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

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War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

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We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

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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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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

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