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View Plans“ ”Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.
About H.L. Mencken
Henry Louis Mencken (12 September 1880 – 29 January 1956), known as H. L. Mencken, was a twentieth-century journalist, satirist, social critic, cynic, and freethinker, known as the "Sage of Baltimore" and the "American Nietzsche". He is often regarded as one of the most influential American writers of the early 20th century.
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Additional quotes by H.L. Mencken
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup.
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.