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The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.

H. L. Mencken

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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On one issue, at least, men and women agree. They both distrust women.
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It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
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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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The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it.
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
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After all is said and done, a hell lot of a lot more is said than done.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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Always remember this: If you don’t attend the funerals of your friends, they will certainly not attend yours.
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Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
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No one in this world, so far as I know – and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me – has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.
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Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
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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
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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All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.
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There’s really no point to voting. If it made any difference, it would probably be illegal.
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