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Henry Louis Mencken
Henry Louis Mencken föddes den 12 september 1880 och dog den 29 januar 1956 - amerikansk filosof, journalist och författare.
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 I have little belief in human progress. The human race is incurably idiotic. It will never be happy. |
| There are some people who read too much: The bibliobibuli. |
| Clergyman: A ticket speculator outside the gates of Heaven |
| Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true. |
| No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not. |
| Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it |
| A great literature is chiefly the product of inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation |
| Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient |
| So few men are really worth knowing, that it seems a shameful waste to let an anthropoid prejudice stand in the way of free association with one who is |
| The average schoolmaster is, and always must be, an ass |
| Conscience: The inner voice which warns us that someone is looking |
| A metaphysician is one who, when you remark that twice two makes four, demands to know what you mean by twice, what you mean by two, what by makes, and what by four |
| They have taken the care and upbringing of children out of the hands of parents, where it belongs, and thrown it upon a gang of irresponsible and unintelligent quacks |
| What is the function that a clergyman performs in the world? Answer: he gets his living by assuring idiots that he can save them from an imaginary hell |
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