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Quote DB :: Authors :: Henry Mencken :: View Quote View Quote "The essence of a self-reliant and autonomous culture is an unshakeable egoism." - Copy to Clipboard   --  Henry Mencken Listed in: Pride Add Quote To Your Quote List   Rating: 5  Rate Quote 3 votes submitted Your Name: Friend's Email: Sponsored Links Top 5 quotes from Henry Mencken "Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?" "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard." "All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it." "The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth--that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one." "Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking." Top 5 quotes from Pride "The essence of a self-reliant and autonomous culture is an unshakeable egoism." "Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man." "But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious Hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own." "Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals." "A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you."

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