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After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
H. L. Mencken
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H. L. Mencken
Age: 75 †
Born: 1880
Born: September 12
Died: 1956
Died: January 29
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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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Every man is his own hell.
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The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think.
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The American people, North and South, went into the [Civil] war as citizens of their respective states, they came out as subjects ... what they thus lost they have never got back.
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Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
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