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Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.

H. L. Mencken

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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Greatness Help Intelligence Lost Money Oneself People Search World
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.
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Democracy Freedom Right Rule Success War
When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.
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Deep Money
There are two impossibilities in life: “just one drink” and “an honest politician.”
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Honesty Impossible Life Politics
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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Belief Freedom Ignorance Rule Wisdom
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
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
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Freedom Gratitude Myself Thankful World
Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
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Feminism Hate Man Women
When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
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Limitation Oppression Power War
A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
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Fools Funny Himself Man Marriage
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.
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Forever Freedom Hate Honesty Myself Strong
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
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
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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Easy Hard Love Relationship Stop War
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
The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear – fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
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Courage Emotion Fear Himself Men Safety

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