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Henry Louis Mencken

Henry Louis Mencken föddes den 12 september 1880 och dog den 29 januari 1956 - amerikansk filosof, journalist och författare.
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I've made it a rule never to drink by daylight and never to refuse a drink after dark

The great artists of the world are never puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin

Men are sad because they have to die so soon, women are sad because they were born so long ago.

Förgänglighet

"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron." — H. L. Mencken

The major contribution of Protestant thought to the knowledge of mankind is its massive proof that God is a bore

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

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A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.

The way to hold a husband is to keep him a little jealous; the way to lose him is to keep him a little more jealous

Svartsjuka

But any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood, and that is what happened to Jesus

A man is called a good fellow for doing things which, if done by a woman, would land her in a lunatic asylum

Truth would quickly cease to become stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it

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A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.

Socitet

Theology-An effort to explain the unknowable by putting it into terms of the not worth knowing

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