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Henry Louis Mencken Quotes

There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness. - Henry Louis Mencken

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[Rudolph Valentino was] what is commonly called for want of a better name, a gentleman. In brief, Valentino's agony was the agony of a man of relatively civilized feelings thrown into a situation of intolerable vulgarity. - Henry Louis Mencken

But any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood, and that is what happened to Jesus. - Henry Louis Mencken

The central difficulty lies in the fact that all of the sciences have made such great progress during the last century that they have got quite beyond the reach of man. - Henry Louis Mencken

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