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• Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
  ..A man full of faith is simply one who has lost (or never had) the capacity for clear and realistic thought....
• One of the merits of democracy is quite obvious: it is perhaps the most charming form of government ever devised by man.
  The reason is not far to seek. It is based on propositions that are palpably not true -- and what is not true, as everyone knows, is always immensely more fascinating and satisfying to the vast majority of men than what is true....
• There are two kinds of books: those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.
  -- H. L. Mencke...
• The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.
  -- H. L. Mencken, Prejudices, First Serie...
• A prohibitionist is someone one wouldn't want to drink with, even if he did drink.
  -- H. L. Mencke...
• 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.
  -- Henry L. Mencke...
• Immorality: The morality of those who are having a better time. -- H. L. Mencke
• 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. Mencke...
• Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule--and both commonly succeed, and are right.
  .. The United States has never developed an aristocracy really disinterested or an intelligentsia really intelligent....