H. L. Mencken Quotes

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. Mencken

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• A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

  

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• But, when Scripture makes a clear distinction between the act of creation and the process of preservation, we cannot accept the idea of a progressive creation process.

  

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• I got into television, and I'm a television guy, so I've never really had a movie career.

  

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• When someone saves your life and gives you life, there's gratitude, humility; there's a time you've been so blessed you realize you've been given another chance at life that maybe you did or didn't deserve.

  

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• One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

  

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• The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.

  

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• There's always merit to having a debate.

  

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• We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.

  

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• There is a place that you are to fill and no one else can fill, something you are to do, which no one else can do.

  

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• 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. Mencken
  • Church
  • Heaven
  • Never