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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.

H. L. Mencken

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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Easy Hard Love Relationship Stop War
On one issue, at least, men and women agree. They both distrust women.
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Funny Issues Man Trust Women
A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
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Funny Justice Law Student
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
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Food Politics Promise
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
The kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas is always the kind whose ideas are idiotic.
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Freedom Government Ideas Kind Men
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
Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
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Election Liberty Material Politics
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
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
Don’t overestimate the decency of the human race.
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Dignity Human Race
Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
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Democracy Freedom Imagination World
Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
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Feminism Hate Man Women
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
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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Belief Freedom Ignorance Rule Wisdom
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

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