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Henry Louis Mencken
b. 1880; d. 1956
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A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.
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Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.
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Bachelors know more about women than married men do. If they didn't, they'd be married too.
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody is looking.
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Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
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Demagogue: One who preaches a doctrine he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
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Love: The delusion that one woman differs from another.
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The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
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There's always an easy solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong.
Henry Louis Mencken, in Altruism and Cynicism and Science and Religion
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Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.
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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.
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