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 The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated. | H. L. Mencken |
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The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught. | H. L. Mencken |
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The essence of a self reliant and autonomous culture
is an unshakeable egoism. | H. L. Mencken |
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The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. | H. L. Mencken |
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The great artists of the world are never puritans, and
seldom even ordinarily respectable. | H. L. Mencken |
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The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. | H. L. Mencken |
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The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind. | H. L. Mencken |
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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. | H. L. Mencken |
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The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence. | H. L. Mencken |
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The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. | H. L. Mencken |
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. | H. L. Mencken |
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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 si | H. L. Mencken |
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Travel only with thy equals or by betters, if there are
none, travel alone. | H. L. Mencken |
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Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right. | H. L. Mencken |
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