Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

H.L. Mencken

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Faith

Author

H.L. Mencken

Source

Prejudices, Third Series

Medium

Essay

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Definition

Language

English

Time

1922 1920s 20th century

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Writer

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United States

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Citation

Mencken, Henry Louis. Mencken: Prejudices: The First, Second, and Third Series, edited by Marion Rodgers. Library of America, 2010, ch. 14, sec. 3. Originally published by Alfred A. Knopf, 1922.

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If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.

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