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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.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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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.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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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.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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