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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.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.

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.



Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.

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

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 the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.

Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.

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