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Famous H. L. Mencken Quotes
“A democracia é a arte e ciência de administrar o circo a partir da jaula dos macacos”
“A consciência é uma voz interior que nos adverte de que alguém pode estar olhando”
“Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright.”
“Immortality is the condition of a dead man who doesn't believe he is dead”
“To denounce moralizing out of hand is to pronounce a moral judgment.”
“Hope: A pathological belief in the occurrence of the impossible.”
“It is only doubt that creates. It is only the minority that counts.”
“No man ever quite believes in any other man.”
“A bad artist almost always tries to conceal his incompetence by whooping up a new formula.”
“The common notion that free speech prevails in the United States always makes me laugh.”
“An altruist is one who would be sincerely sorry to see his neighbor's children devoured by wolves.”
“Poverty is a soft pedal upon the branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual.”