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H. L. Mencken US editor (1880 - 1956)
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.



The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

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