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Schriftsteller, Journalist, Kritiker (USA, 1880 - 1956).

Henry Louis Mencken · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Henry Louis Mencken wäre heute 143 Jahre, 7 Monate, 17 Tage oder 52.459 Tage alt.

Geboren am 12.09.1880 in Baltimore
Gestorben am 29.01.1956 in Baltimore
Sternzeichen: ♍ Jungfrau

• Historian - an unsuccessful novelist.

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• Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

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• Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.

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• Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality.

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• If experience teaches us anything at all, it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

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• Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.

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• In human history, a moral victory is always a disaster for it debauches and degrades both the victor and the vanquished.

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• In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.

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• Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

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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 now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics and chemistry.

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• It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person to reconcile himself to the idea that after all God will not help him.

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• Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

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• Men become civilized not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their willingness to doubt.

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• Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible.

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• Most philosophical treatises show the human cerebrum loaded far beyond its Plimsoll mark.

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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 she were not.

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• No one . . . has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.

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• No one hates his job so heartily as a farmer.

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• No young man is educated if he comes out of college with the cheap and false values of the common man.

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