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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....
• The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.
  -- H. L. Mencken, Prejudices, First Serie...
• The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
  -- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956), Prejudices, Third Series", 1922...
• Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered
  there is only error to be exposed. -- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956), "Prejudices, Third Series", 1922...
• A man may be a fool and not know it -- but not if he is married. -- H. L. Mencke
• Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. -- H. L. Mencke
• Every man sees in his relatives a series of grotesque caricatures of himself. -- H. L. Mencke
• What the meaning of human life may be I don't know
  I incline to suspect that it has none. -- H. L. Mencke...
• H. L. Mencken suffers from the hallucination that he is H.
  L. Mencken -- there is no cure for a disease of that magnitude. -- Maxwell Bodenheim...