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883There is always a well-known solution to every human problem--neat, plausible, and wrong. H.L. Mencken
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After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. -
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The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy! -
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking. -
938Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it. H.L. Mencken
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it. -
720The 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 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. -
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We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine. -
709Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. H.L. Mencken
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Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. -
782Under 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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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. -
765To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true! H.L. Mencken
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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true! -
795The 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 of one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one. 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... -
759The 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 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... -
863The 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 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... -
744The 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 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. -
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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. -
673The 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 most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind. -
708The men the American public admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth. H.L. Mencken
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The men the American public admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth. -
735The 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 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... -
820The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. H.L. Mencken
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The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. -
645The 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 chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.