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The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

H. L. Mencken

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
There’s really no point to voting. If it made any difference, it would probably be illegal.
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Democracy Difference Vote
Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
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Election Liberty Material Politics
Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true.
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Believe Men Suffering True
The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.
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Danger Government Himself Men Thinking
There are two kinds of Europeans: The smart ones, and those who stayed behind.
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Difference Kind Smart Stay
When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.
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Deep Money
Change is not progress.
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Change Difference One Liner Progress
There are two impossibilities in life: “just one drink” and “an honest politician.”
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Honesty Impossible Life Politics
The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God’s children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
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Children Failure God Man Success Theory
Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
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Feminism Hate Man Women
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
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
The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.
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Education Knowledge Simplicity Teaching Wonderful
Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted.
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Danger Democracy Freedom Scare
The ideal way to get rid of any infectious disease would be to shoot instantly every person who comes down with it.
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Death Freedom Ideal Kill Sick

The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

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