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iWinkels.be snel gemakkelijk de juiste winkel of winkels vinden
 
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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If x is the population of the United States and y is the degree of imbecility of the average American, then democracy is the theory that x X y is less than y
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If you want peace, work for justice.
JusticePeace
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.
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Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable
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Imagine the Creator as a stand up comedian - and at once the world becomes explicable.
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Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time
Morality
Immortality is the condition of a dead man who doesn't believe he is dead
Immortality
In brief, she assumed that, being a man, I was vain to the point of imbecility, and this assumption was correct, as it always is
Men
In order to teach chemistry or psychology or even history or Greek a man must actually know something, but for the teacher of English nothing seems to be necessary beyond a crude capacity to read and write
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In the youth of every man there comes over him a sudden yearning to be a good fellow: to be "Bill" or "Jim" to multitudes, and to go down into legend with Sir John Falstaff and Tom Jones
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In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
SadnessWorld
Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice
Injustice
Intelligence has been commoner among American Presidents than high character
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It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.
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It is a peculiarity of the American mind that it regards any excursion into the truth as an adventure into cynicism
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It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.
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It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
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It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
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It is Hell, of course, that makes priests powerful, not Heaven, for after thousands of years of so-called civilization fear remains the one common denominator of mankind
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It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin
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