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It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

H. L. Mencken

Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp-post.
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Career Dog Journalism Politics
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
Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
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Feminism Hate Man Women
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
Evangelical Christianity, as everyone knows, is founded upon hate, as the Christianity of Christ was founded upon love.
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Build Hate Love Religion
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
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
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
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Argument Crime Funny Humor Kind Poor
Change is not progress.
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Change Difference One Liner Progress
On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
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Desire Funny Glory Greatness Heart
Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
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Democracy Freedom Imagination World
There are two impossibilities in life: “just one drink” and “an honest politician.”
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Honesty Impossible Life Politics
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
On one issue, at least, men and women agree. They both distrust women.
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Funny Issues Man Trust Women
The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.
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Daring Lying Man People Success Truth Violence
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

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