Henry Louis Mencken
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So few men are really worth knowing, that it seems a shameful waste to let an anthropoid prejudice s... 
Henry was thinking of the younger Holland sister of the way she could go from being an impetuous gir... 
Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us. 
Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us. 
Men of few words are the best men. -King Henry V. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, ... 
Abraham Lincoln because he was a man filled with great compassion who believed that all men are crea... 
This satsang (association with the Self) is the only thing that can establish a state that is free o... 
Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all. 
In historical events great men-so called-are but the labels that serve to give a mane to an event, a... 
Let those who desire a secure homeland conquer it. Let those who do not conquer it live under the wh... 
A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little... 
A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little... 
The joy and smile of even one child is worth more than the prancing intellects of a thousand men, fo... 
In my contact with people I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for ... 
All too often we hear stories of veterans who are ignored or disrespected by government. What a sham... 
It is not just shameful for a contemporary American poet to use rhymes, it is unthinkable. It seems ... 
The American Medical Association says the humane way is to let people starve and thirst to death. If... 
The world is waiting ... for new saints, ecstatic men and women who are so deeply rooted in the love... 
One seldom discovers a true believer that is worth knowing 
I think the association of economics with forecasting is unfortunate and is down to the fact that on... 
Most of us really aren't horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put 'em all in one room... 
It turns out that the men who ultimately, who unpretentiously value peace are willing to sacrifice t... 
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength.... 
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What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act? 
I really enjoyed staying at an encampment at the top of a hill in the Samburu Reserve in Kenya. You ... 
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The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence i... 
The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving ... 
The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an
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It is part of you, and you are a man worth knowing 
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Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th... 
The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it -- a State which... 
ONE OF the most irrational of all the conventions of modern society is the one to the effect that re... 
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It is a lie. 
Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of... 
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What a fuss people make about fidelity!" exclaimed Lord Henry. "Why, even in love it is purely a que... 
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Some men fish all their lives without knowing it is not really the fish they are after. 
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