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Quote DB :: Authors :: Henry Mencken :: View Quote View Quote "The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom." - Copy to Clipboard   --  Henry Mencken Listed in: Age, Wisdom Add Quote To Your Quote List   Rating: 4.2  Rate Quote 10 votes submitted Your Name: Friend's Email: Sponsored Links Top 5 quotes from Henry Mencken "The essence of a self-reliant and autonomous culture is an unshakeable egoism." "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." Top 5 quotes from Age, Wisdom "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." "That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history." "The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves." "Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom." "By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest."

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