H.L. Mencken's Quote - Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age. – H.L. Mencken

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Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age. - H.L. Mencken

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age. – H.L. Mencken

Other quotes by H.L. Mencken

Taxation, for example, is eternally lively; it concerns nine-tenths of us more directly than either smallpox or golf, and has just as much drama in it; moreover, it has been mellowed and made gay by as many gaudy, preposterous theories. – H.L. Mencken

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No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not. – H.L. Mencken

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It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin. – H.L. Mencken

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History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose. – John le Carre

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History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. – Ambrose Bierce

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Value people on their potential, not on their history. – Bo Bennett

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In history people dressed much better than we do today. – Vivienne Westwood

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I just love movies. – Edward Norton

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Why kill time when one can employ it. – Proverb

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Grandchildren: the only people who can get more out of you than the IRS. – Gene Perret

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