H. L. Mencken Quote

The pedant and the priest have always been the most expert of logicians -- and the most diligent disseminators of nonsense and worse.


The American Mercury (ed. 1924)


The pedant and the priest have always been the most expert of logicians -- and the most diligent disseminators of nonsense and worse.

The pedant and the priest have always been the most expert of logicians -- and the most diligent disseminators of nonsense and worse.

The pedant and the priest have always been the most expert of logicians -- and the most diligent disseminators of nonsense and worse.

The pedant and the priest have always been the most expert of logicians -- and the most diligent disseminators of nonsense and worse.