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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

Evangelical Christianity, as everyone knows, is founded upon hate, as the Christianity of Christ was founded upon love.
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Build Hate Love Religion
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
A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
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Funny Justice Law Student
Change is not progress.
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Change Difference One Liner Progress
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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Death Flower Funny Humor
An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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Ideal Myself Rose
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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Freedom Government Integrity Live Men Shame
The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
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Himself Men Oneself
What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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Leadership Men Priviledge Right Value
Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
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Democracy Freedom Imagination World
Sometimes the idiots outvote the sensible people.
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Democracy People Vote
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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Easy Hard Love Relationship Stop War
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
Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.
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Atheist Moral Motivational Religion Right
The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it’s good-bye to the Bill of Rights.
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Democracy Goodness Hands Right
The chief difference between free capitalism and State socialism seems to be this: that under the former a man pursues his own advantage openly, frankly and honestly, whereas under the latter he does so hypocritically and under false pretenses.
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Differences Freedom Honesty Hypocrisy Men Pursue

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