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It is the classic fallacy of our time that a moron run through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. will thereby cease to be a moron.

H. L. Mencken

It is the classic fallacy of our time that a moron run through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. will thereby cease to be a moron.
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Education Ourselves Run Time
There are two impossibilities in life: “just one drink” and “an honest politician.”
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Honesty Impossible Life Politics
Always remember this: If you don’t attend the funerals of your friends, they will certainly not attend yours.
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Age Friendship Remember Yourself
It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
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Believe Funny Hard Man Transformation
A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker.
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Freedom Honor Men Order Politics
What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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Leadership Men Priviledge Right Value
The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.
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Daring Lying Man People Success Truth Violence
There are two kinds of Europeans: The smart ones, and those who stayed behind.
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Difference Kind Smart Stay
Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.
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Freedom Funny Limitation Oneself Politics
Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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Equality Forever Ideal Law Men Priviledge Right World
Government’s great contribution to human wisdom is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket.
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Discovery Government Human Liberty Wisdom
Once a woman passes a certain point in intelligence she finds it almost impossible to get a husband: she simply cannot go on listening without snickering.
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Heart Husband Intelligence Listening Men Simplicity Woman
For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
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Choice Moral Philosophy Problem Simplicity Wrong
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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Belief Freedom Ignorance Rule Wisdom
A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to Heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
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Funny Heaven Humor Person Place
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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Easy Hard Love Relationship Stop War

It is the classic fallacy of our time that a moron run through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. will thereby cease to be a moron.

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