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Every Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- Every man is his own hell.
- Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
- For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
- Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
- Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
- Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
- Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
- There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.
- Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
- A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.
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