H. L. Mencken Quotes About Discouraging
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Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.
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The learned are seldom pretty fellows, and in many cases their appearance tends to discourage a love of study in the young.
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Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant.
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All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them.
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