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~ Henry Mencken Quotes ~
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Henry Mencken Quotes


An American columnist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture, and a student of American English. 
Henry Louis "H. L." Mencken (September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956), was an American columnist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture, and a student of American English. Mencken, known as the "Sage of Baltimore", is regarded as one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the first half of the 20th century.

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Every government is a scoundrel.
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Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.
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Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
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Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.
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Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
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God is a comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh.
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Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
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Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.
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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
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Time is a great legalizer even in the field of morals.
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Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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Time is a great legalizer even in the fields of morals.
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Nothing can come out of an artist that is not in the man.
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What men value in the world is not rights but privileges.
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Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
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