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Time is a great legalizer, even in the field of morals
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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No democratic delusion is more fatuous than that which holds that all men are capable of reason, and hence susceptible to conversion by evidence. If religions depended upon evidence for their prolongation, then all of them would collapse.
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I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.
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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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The average schoolmaster is and always must be essentially an ass, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation.
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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
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A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
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The highfalutin aims of democracy, whether real or imaginary, are always assumed to be identical with its achievements. This, of course, is sheer hallucination. Not one of those aims, not even the aim of giving every adult a vote, has been realized. It has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
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Of government, at least in democratic states, it may be said briefly that it is an agency engaged wholesale, and as a matter of solemn duty, in the performance of acts which all self-respecting individuals refrain from as a matter of common decency.
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If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.
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Culture itself is neither education nor law-making: it is an atmosphere and a heritage.
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The chief knowledge that's man on from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.
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