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The Most Costly Of All Follies Is To Believe Passionately In The Palpably Not True.
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The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately
in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
-- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
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The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true.
It is the chief occupation of mankind. -- H.L. Mencke...
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....
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
-- H. L. Mencke...
Never let your inferiors do you a favor--it will be extremely costly. -- H. L. Mencke
It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake. -- H. L. Mencke
The Ultimate Wisdom Philosophers must ultimately find their true perfection in knowing all the follies of mankind by introspection.
-- Piet Hei...
The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
-- H. L. Mencke...
All the postmasters in small towns read all the postcards.
-- Mencken and Nathan's Second Law of The Average American -- H. L. Mencke...
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.
-- H. L. Mencken, Notebooks, 1956...