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https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/49316/pg49316-images.html
The book , is called The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche .
If you don´t know much about Mencken , this is a very good place to start .
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/H._L._Mencken

Can you guys recommend any more like Mencken?

>It is not fair to dislike a writer before you have read him solely in the way that people quote him on twi-

>Tfw I never see H.L. Mencken mentioned on /lit/

I only just found out about him today, browsing Wikiquotes whilst stuck in work, but he seems like a thoroughly based /lit/erati patrician. Which of his works does /lit/ recommend?

>"How did one of America's seemingly great rationalists and modernists come to regard Roosevelt as more worthy of condemnation than Hitler? The answer, on the evidence of this and other studies, is that Mencken was a German nationalist, an insecure small-town petit bourgeois, a childless hypochondriac with what seems on the evidence of these pages to have been a room-temperature libido, an antihumanist as much as an atheist, a man prone to the hyperbole and sensationalism he distrusted in others and not as easy with the modern world and its many temptations and diversions as he liked it to be supposed." - Christopher Hitchens

If you can find yourself on the wrong side of edgy contrarian pseuds like big Chris Hitch, you must have been doing something right.

>The Jews could be put down very plausibly as the most unpleasant race ever heard of. As commonly encountered, they lack many of the qualities that mark the civilized man: courage, dignity, incorruptibility, ease, confidence. They have vanity without pride, voluptuousness without taste, and learning without wisdom. Their fortitude, such as it is, is wasted upon puerile objects, and their charity is mainly a form of display

What did Mencken mean when he said "the common man's a fool"? Did he mean it literally? If so, why did he think this way?

Why don't you cuddle down every night to read A Mencken Chrestomathy, /lit/?

Henry Louis Mencken.