The chief knowledge that's man on from reading books is the knowledge …

H. L. Mencken
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The chief knowledge that's man on from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading. ✨ A little book in C major.
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In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell. ✨ H.L. Mencken (2012). Mencken Chrestomathy, p.359, Vintage
Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth.
Creator: A comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh. ✨ A Mencken Chrestomathy. Book by H. L. Mencken, ch. 30, 1949.
Whenever A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel. ✨ Newspaper Days: 1899 - 1906 ch. 2 (1941)
The Jews could be put down very plausibly as the most unpleasant race ever heard of. As commonly encountered they lack any of the qualities that mark the civilized man: courage, dignity, incorruptibi … ▶

The chief knowledge that's man on from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading. ✨ A little book in C major.

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