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Henry Louis Mencken Quotes

«Men become civilized not in proportion to their willingness to believe but in proportion to their readiness to doubt»
«Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice»
«I can only imagine very stupid people looking at it (Television)»
«It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person to reconcile himself to the idea that after all God will not help him»
«Change is not progress»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken (Critic, Journalist) | About: Change | Keywords: progress
«In brief, she assumed that, being a man, I was vain to the point of imbecility, and this assumption was correct, as it always is»
«A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.»
«How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh»
«One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.»
«A professional politician is a professionally dishonourable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker.»

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