H. L. Mencken Quotes About Sympathy

• When we appropriate money from the public funds to pay for vaccinating a horde of negroes, we do not do it because we have any sympathy for them or because we crave their blessings, but simply because we don't want them to be falling ill of smallpox

  H. L. Mencken

  Sympathy, Fall, Blessing

  H. L. Mencken (2003). “Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche”, p.165, See Sharp Press

• In any combat between a rogue and a fool the sympathy of mankind is always with the rogue.

  H. L. Mencken

  Sympathy, Rogues, Fool

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.616, Vintage

• When you sympathize with a married woman you either make two enemies or gain one wife and one friend.

  H. L. Mencken

  Sympathy, Women, Two

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.620, Vintage

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