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Henry Louis Mencken
Henry Louis Mencken föddes den September 12th 1880 och dog den 29 January 1956 - of American life who influenced US fiction through the 1920s.
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 Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed |
| No article of faith is proof against the disintegrating effects of increasing information; one might almost describe the acquirement of knowledge as a process of disillusion |
| No man can be friendly to another whose personal habits differ materially from his own. Even the trivialities of table manners thus become important. The fact probably explains much of race prejudice, and even more of national prejudice. |
| No man ever quite believes in any other man |
| No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man. |
| No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single. |
| 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. |
| No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight |
| No normal man ever fell in love after 30 when the kidneys begin to disintegrate. |
| No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby. |
| No one in this world, so far as I know has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people |
| Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. |
| Not by accident, you may be sure, do the Christian Scriptures make the father of knowledge a serpent-slimy, sneaking and abominable. |
| Nothing is more patent, indeed, than the fact that charity merely converts the unfit - who, in the course of nature, would soon die out and so cease to encumber the earth - into parasites - who live on indefinitely, a nuisance and a burden to their b |
| Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse. |
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