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«There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Character,
Civilization
| Keywords:
civilization, valuable
«Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.»
«There is only one justification for having sinned, and that is to be glad of it»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
glad, gladder, gladdest, Having, I was glad, justification, sinned
«A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
blames, dark, fools, In The Dark, The Dark, walks
«The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
Christianity, Christians, communism, Communists, just as, trouble
«Dachshund: A half-a-dog high and a dog-and-a-half long»
«The cynics are right nine times out of ten.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Cynicism
| Keywords:
Cynics, nine, nine times
«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»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
civilization, common, common denominator, course, denominator, denominators, mankind, of course, powerful, priests, remains, so-called, Thousands
«I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
Be Free, free, ignorant, lie, slave, slaving, To Tell the Truth
«What men value in this world is not rights but privileges»
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