H. L. Mencken Quote

If there is one mental vice, indeed, which sets off the American people from all other folks who walk the earth... it is that of assuming that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that ninety-nine percent of them are wrong.


"The American: His New Puritanism," The Smart Set (February 1914)


If there is one mental vice, indeed, which sets off the American people from all other folks who walk the earth... it is that of assuming that every...

If there is one mental vice, indeed, which sets off the American people from all other folks who walk the earth... it is that of assuming that every...

If there is one mental vice, indeed, which sets off the American people from all other folks who walk the earth... it is that of assuming that every...

If there is one mental vice, indeed, which sets off the American people from all other folks who walk the earth... it is that of assuming that every...