From the Wisdom of HL Mencken

One of the keenest observers and bravest truth tellers of the past century

The theory that the market rewards quality is one of the many idolatrous platitudes of our day. Don't believe it.

Mark Twain's non-fiction remains on the shelf despite its vast superiority to his fiction.

Ben Hecht was cancelled by Hollywood for being the only powerful Jew in America doing his damnest to stop the Holocaust, and thus, despite having won both the 1st and the 3rd Academy Awards for Scriptwriting his nameis hardly known today.

And HL Mencken, undeniably one of the greatest minds of the first half of the 20th Century is known to moderns only by T-shirt length twitter quotes employed by the illiterate against their political enemies du jour.

He introduced Nietzsche to the English speaking world and wrote the definitive thousand page opus on American English — in his spare time.

The rest of the time he was busy having a belly laugh at the cooks and crooks running the world circus while producing hundreds of thousands astonishingly beautiful and brilliant news stories, books, plays, articles and letters covering nearly every subject of human interest.

If America ever produced a worthy intellectual he was it.

A few of his evergreen tiny truth bombs for your enjoyment!