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Henry Louis Mencken
Henry Louis Mencken föddes den 12 september 1880 och dog den 29 januari 1956 - of American life who influenced US fiction through the 1920s.
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 A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank. |
| A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and truth in front of patriotic passion |
| A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and truth in front of patriotic passion |
| A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable. |
| Adultery is the application of democracy to love |
| After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. |
| After all, the world is not our handiwork, and we are not responsible for what goes on in it, save within very narrow limits |
| Alimony: The ransom that the happy pay to the devil |
| All (zoos) actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling |
| All government, of course, is against liberty. |
| All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. |
| All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it. |
| All talk of winning the people by appealing to their intelligence, of conquering them by impeccable syllogism, is so much moonshine |
| An enchanted life has many moments when the heart is overwhelmed with beauty and the imagination is electrified by some haunting quality in the world or by a spirit or voice speaking from deep within a thing, a place, or a person. Enchantment may be |
| An individual who forces himself to accept this or that idea, or who pretends to accept this or that idea, not only on the ground that believing in it is an act of virtue, but also on the ground that doing so is prudent, is both a fool and a knave |
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