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Henry Louis Mencken Quotes
You come into the world with nothing, and the purpose of your life is to make something out of nothing.
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Henry Louis Mencken
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
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Henry Louis Mencken
Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world.
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Henry Louis Mencken
Wherefore, Nietzsche concluded that the chief characteristic of a moral system was its tendency to perpetuate itself unchanged, and to destroy all who questioned it or denied it.
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Henry Louis Mencken
When we appropriate money from the public funds to pay for vaccinating a horde of negroes, we do not do it because we have any sympathy for them or because we crave their blessings, but simply because we don't want them to be falling ill of smallpox.
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Henry Louis Mencken
When I mount the scaffold at last these will be my farewell words to the sheriff: Say what you will against me when I am gone, but don't forget to add, in common justice, that I was never converted to anything.
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Henry Louis Mencken
When I hear artists and authors making fun of business men I think of a regiment in which the band makes fun of the cooks.
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Henry Louis Mencken
When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.
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Henry Louis Mencken
What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor.
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Henry Louis Mencken
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