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Behind Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- The whole drift of our law is toward the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest form from the accepted platitudes, and…
- At the end of one millennium and nine centuries of Christianity, it remains an unshakable assumption of the law in all Christian countries and of…
- Civilization, in fact, grows more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of…
- There are two kinds of Europeans: The smart ones, and those who stayed behind.
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