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Letter "H" » Henry Louis Mencken Quotes
«Do not overestimate the decency of the human race»
«A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.»
«Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy»
«Love: The delusion that one woman differs from another»
«A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it»
«The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality»
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«It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.»
«Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another»
«School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence.»