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Quotes by Henry Louis Mencken
"Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence."
By Henry Louis Mencken
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"The only really happy folk are married women and single men."
By Henry Louis Mencken
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"Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution."
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"No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public."
By Henry Louis Mencken
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"For every problem, there is one solution which is simple, neat and wrong."
By Henry Louis Mencken
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"It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man."
By Henry Louis Mencken
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"The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore."
By Henry Louis Mencken
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"For every problem there is a solution which is simple, clean and wrong."
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"Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull. It is the sex instinct which makes women seem beautiful, which"
By Henry Louis Mencken
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"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."
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"The fact that I have no remedy for the sorrows of the world is no reason for my accepting yours. It simply supports the strong p"
By Henry Louis Mencken
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"One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell witho"
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"It is inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This make"
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"The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evi"
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"Love is like war easy to begin but very hard to stop."
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"A formula for answering controversial letters -- without even reading the letters Dear Sir (or Madame) You may be right."
By Henry Louis Mencken
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"The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, that his forefathers had, and all their disgust of emotion, and"
By Henry Louis Mencken
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"Whenever A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel."
By Henry Louis Mencken
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"The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the"
By Henry Louis Mencken
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"A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, an"
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"The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who Is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevail"
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"A sound American is simply one who has put out of his mind all doubts and questionings, and who accepts instantly, and as incont"
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"School days are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unplea"
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"But any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood, and that is what happened to Jesu"
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"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule."
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