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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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 If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl. |
| It is more blessed to give than receive; for example, wedding presents |
| It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics and chemistry |
| Government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods |
| The smallest atom of truth represents some man's bitter toil and agony; for every ponderable chunk of it there is a brave truth-seeker's grave upon some lonely ash-heap and a soul roasting in hell |
| Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates. |
| A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them. |
| A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and truth in front of patriotic passion |
| A man of active and resilient mind outwears his friendships just as certainly as he outwears his love affairs, his politics and his epistemology. |
| Lincoln marked the half-way post on the road to the sewers (in presidents) |
| Every man is thoroughly happy twice in his life: just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last one |
| Psychology: The theory that the patient will probably get well anyhow, and is certainly a damned fool |
| Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian. |
| Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself. |
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