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Enoch Pratt Free Library Humanities Department H. L. Mencken Room and Collection State Library Resource Center / Central Library So Mencken introduces a long, loud, and loquacious life. Henry Louis Mencken was born on September 12,1880, of German-American stock. His paternal grandfather had settled, as a cigar maker, in the German section of Baltimore in 1848, and his father eventually started his own tobacco firm, which did a comfortable business and provided a comfortable income. When Henry, the eldest of three boys and a girl, was three, the family moved to 1524 Hollins Street, a neighborhood which in the eighties was still almost rural. Mencken continued to live there all his life in spite of allurements to move to New York, which he termed "a third-rate Babylon," preferring to remain in and of "the immense protein factory of Chesapeake Bay." As a boy, Mencken attended F. Knapp's Institute, and later the Polytechnic. Mencken's own story of his life, up to his twelfth year, in Happy Days is a delightful account of bourgeois boyhood and Baltimore in the 1880's. By precedent destined for the tobacco business, by temperament Mencken was destined for the business of ideas. He had "blooded" his first book in 1888. His next experience with print, Huckleberry Finn, he called "probably the most stupendous event of my whole life" and adds that "thus launched upon the career of a bookworm, I presently began to reach out right and left for more fodder. When the Enoch Pratt Free Library opened a branch in Hollins Street... I was still a shade too young to be excited, but I had a card before I was nine... I began to inhabit a world that was two-thirds letterpress and only one-third trees, fields, streets and people." During his high school days Mencken claimed to be "one of the most assiduous customers that the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore has had in its whole history."

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Quotes From H. L. Mencken Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. Freedom of press is limited to those who own one. Those who can do. Those who can't teach. Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable. Nature abhors a moron. Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them. Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution. Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing. Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. Hanging one scoundrel, it appears, does not deter the next. Well, what of it? The first one is at least disposed of. Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice. It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. Capitalism undoubtedly has certain boils and blotches upon it, but has it as many as government? Has it as many as marriage? Has it as many as religion? I doubt it. It is the only basic institution of modern man that shows any genuine health and vigor.

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H L Mencken hl mencken h.l mencken Henry Louis Mencken Home Interesting Quotations > Henry Louis Mencken quotes Site Map Slide Shows Guest Book Links ... Support Us Henry Louis Mencken H L Mencken ( Henry Louis Mencken ) and George Jean Nathan, his co-editor at The Smart Set , were well known for the numerous short epigrams that were a fixture of that magazine. The sayings were so popular they were featured in movie theaters as trailers before the main feature started. He remains ever quoteable. Here is a selection of delightful and wise quotations and quotes attributable to Mencken:- I believe it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe that it is better to know than to be ignorant. Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone may be looking. Puritanism - The haunting fear that someone, somewhere may be happy. Truth - Something somehow discreditable to someone. A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

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Quotes From H. L. Mencken Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. Freedom of press is limited to those who own one. Those who can do. Those who can't teach. Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable. Nature abhors a moron. Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them. Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution. Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing. Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. Hanging one scoundrel, it appears, does not deter the next. Well, what of it? The first one is at least disposed of. Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice. It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. Capitalism undoubtedly has certain boils and blotches upon it, but has it as many as government? Has it as many as marriage? Has it as many as religion? I doubt it. It is the only basic institution of modern man that shows any genuine health and vigor.

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Henry Louis Mencken once wrote "A man’s women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity" (1). While Mencken’s blunt declaration provides shock-value humor, it is also a serious and profound statement that reflects his intellectual deviation from the gender stereotypes of his time. Mencken’s ideas about the societal roles of women differed greatly from those of traditional, conservative, Victorian Americans in the nineteen twenties. In fact, he frequently criticized this genre of Americans, whom he labeled the "booboise", for their "provincialism of attitude in manners, morals, politics, and taste" (Martin 67). In order to compare Mencken’s view with that of the "booboise", however, traditional ideas about gender roles must first be explored. Women in the 1920’s were placed in a socially subordinate position relative to their male counterparts. This was influenced directly by the preceding Victorian era, in which women were expected to be subservient to men in nearly all walks of life. But, even with the "New Woman" of the modern era and notions of female empowerment, the advertising industry still did much to perpetuate ideas of the woman as a domestic servant (Horn 104). Thus, women in the twenties were viewed as domestic creatures, second class citizens, and emotional beings. The advertisement pages of any "Ladies Home Journal" or "Vanity Fair" from the roaring twenties can testify that women were viewed in this time as the administrators of domestic life. Though the flood of new consumer products promised to "empower" women by offering the right to choose, the twenties paradoxically imprisoned them by further entrenching the connection between women and the private, domestic world. This necessarily precluded women from participating in the public arenas of politics, government, and business on the same level as men.

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H.L. Mencken: Two of his Theories Henry Louis Mencken was born on September 12, 1880. He was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. His father owned a Cigar factory. H.L seemed destined to follow in his fathers footsteps. After studying at the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute he worked for his father in the cigar Factory until 1899. This would not be Mencken's lasting contribution to society. In 1899 he began writng for several local, Boston area, newspapers. Two of the more prestigious papers that he worked for were the Baltimore Herald Tribune and Baltimore Sun . He worked as a newspaper writer for most of the 1910's. His career as a newspaper man quickly launched him into the literary world as both a freelance writer and an editor of his own journal, The American Mercury. The scope of Mencken's writings was extremely broad. He satirized the American south after the Scopes Monkey trial, criticized American democracy, joked about Prohibition, challenged the place of women in society, and advocated free speech. He was known throughout his life as an general critic and commentator on American society. Mencken's appeal was in his the shock value of his opinions. Though he was a serious writer, he spoke with a true voice of sarcasm. This made him very difficult to interpret. Mencken wrote very much for himself, rather than for the public. His political ideas often contradicted one another. Above all, Mencken was a sort of entertainer of his generation. Especially during the explosive decade that was the roaring twenties, his outlandish ideas and extreme political views posited an intellectual challenge to the stringent "Victorian" way of life that governed the lives of so many Americans.

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