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A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

Author : H. L. Mencken

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

Author : H. L. Mencken

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

Author : H. L. Mencken

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

Author : H. L. Mencken

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

Author : H. L. Mencken

No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.

Author : H. L. Mencken

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.

Author : H. L. Mencken

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

Author : H. L. Mencken

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

Author : H. L. Mencken

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

Author : H. L. Mencken