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Quotations by author » Henry Louis Mencken
American humorous Journalist and Critic of American life who influenced US fiction through the 1920s, 1880-1956
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Nature abhors a moron
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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
Life
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
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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.
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No man ever quite believes in any other man
Life
No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.
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No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.
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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.
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No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight
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No normal man ever fell in love after 30 when the kidneys begin to disintegrate.
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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.
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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
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Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
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Not by accident, you may be sure, do the Christian Scriptures make the father of knowledge a serpent-slimy, sneaking and abominable.
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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
Charity
Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.
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Old age ain't no place for sissies.
Age
On both sides of the Reformation fence the Christian church fought for its life, and nearly everywhere it had the support of the universities, which is to say, of official learning, which is to say, of organized ignorance
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On one issue, at least, men and women agree: they both distrust women
Men and Women
One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.
AnimalsLaughter
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