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A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

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
Don’t overestimate the decency of the human race.
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Dignity Human Race
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
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 central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts.
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Belief Himself Mystery Right True Victim
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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Easy Hard Love Relationship Stop War
The State doesn’t just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey.
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Government Politics Yourself
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
On one issue, at least, men and women agree. They both distrust women.
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Funny Issues Man Trust 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
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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Government Himself Men Oppression
When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
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Limitation Oppression Power War
Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp-post.
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Career Dog Journalism Politics
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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Freedom Government Integrity Live Men Shame
Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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Fear God Happiness
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

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