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Кто не хочет видетьвысокое в человеке,еще сильнее присматриваеться к тому,что в нем низко и поверхностно,-этим он выдает самого себя.
Фридрих Ницше

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Quotes from Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)

For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.

It is inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

It is more blessed to give than to receive; for example, wedding presents.

A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.

Demagogue: One who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

Immorality: The morality of those who are having a better time.

Jealousy: The theory that some other fellow has just as little taste.

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.

Firmness in decision is often merely a form of stupidity. It indicates an inability to think the same thing out twice.

Truth - Something somehow discreditable to someone.

Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all other philosophers are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.

Those who can -- do. Those who can't -- teach.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

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.

The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody is looking.

A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.

A man may be a fool and not know it -- but not if he is married.

A celebrity is one who is known by many people he is glad he doesn't know.