How to Drink Like a Gentleman: The Things to Do and the Things Not To,…

H. L. Mencken
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Firmness in decision is often merely a form of stupidity. It indicates an inability to think the same thing out twice.
A fool who, after plain warning, persists in dosing himself with dangerous drugs should be free to do so, for his death is a benefit to the race in general. ✨ H.L. Mencken (2013). Minority Report, p. … ▶
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. ✨ H. L. Mencken, Marion Elizabeth Rodgers (2010). H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, … ▶
The most satisfying and ecstatic faith is almost purely agnostic. It trusts absolutely without professing to know at all. ✨ H.L. Mencken (2012). Mencken Chrestomathy, p.89, Vintage
A man who knows a subject thoroughly, a man so soaked in it that he eats it, sleeps it and dreams it- this man can always teach it with success, no matter how little he knows of technical pedagogy. ✨ … ▶

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