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Henry Louis Mencken Quotes
«The plain truth is that I am not a fair man, and don't want to hear both sides»
«To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.»
«People will believe what they want to believe»
«To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia.»
«Complex problems have simple, easy to understand, wrong answers.»
«The allurement that women hold out to men is precisely the allurement that Cape Hatteras holds out to sailors: they are enormously dangerous and hence enormously fascinating»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
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Critic,
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Men and Women
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«It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.»
«Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
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«If x is the population of the United States and y is the degree of imbecility of the average American, then democracy is the theory that x X y is less than y»
«I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.»