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Letter "H" » Henry Louis Mencken Quotes
«The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant about them»
«A man who is an agnostic by inheritance, so that he doesn't remember any time that he wasn't, has almost no hatred for the religious»
«The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.»
«After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.»
«All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.»
«The essence of a self-reliant and autonomous culture is an unshakeable egoism.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
autonomous, egoism, reliant, self-reliant
«A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.»
«Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
historian, novelist, the novelist, unsuccessful
«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»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
arts, error, exposed, Nine Lives, nine times
«Fine: A bribe paid by a rich man to escape the lawful penalty of his crime»
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