Tag: Henry Louis Mencken

Love is the mistaken belief that one woman differs from another.

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Love is the triump of imagination over intelligence.

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No man ever quite believes in any other man.

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One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

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School days are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, with brutal violations of common sense and common decency.

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The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.

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The cynics are right nine times out of ten.

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The fact that I have no remedy for the sorrows of the world is no reason for my accepting yours. It simply supports the strong possibility that yours is a fake.

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The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who Is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost invariably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And if he is not romantic personally, he is apt to spread discontent among those who are.

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The only cure for contempt is countercontempt.

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