Quotes by Henry Louis Mencken

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time

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Morality is nothing but a struggle for safety

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Morality: The theory that every human act must either be right or wrong, and that...

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Painting is the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to...

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The only kind of freedom that the mob can imagine is freedom to annoy and...

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Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another

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

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The smallest atom of truth represents some man's bitter toil and agony; for every ponderable...

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The fundamentalist mind, running in a single rut for fifty years, is now quite unable...

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Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

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There are two kinds of music; German music and bad music.

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A critic is a man who writes about things he doesn't like

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