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H. L. Mencken US editor (1880 - 1956)
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For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe... Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Never let your inferiors do you a favor - it will be extremely costly.

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

A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.



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 capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don΄t want to meet them.

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