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H. L. Mencken US editor (1880 - 1956)
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It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn΄t know.

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.



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.

There is always a well-known solution to every human problem--neat, plausible, and wrong.

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

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