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Mainly Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- The Jews could be put down very plausibly as the most unpleasant race ever heard of. As commonly encountered they lack any of the qualities…
- The only kind of freedom that the mob can imagine is freedom to annoy and oppress its betters, and that is precisely the kind that…
- The chief business of the nation, as a nation, is the setting up of heroes, mainly bogus.
- Politics, as hopeful men practise it in the world, consists mainly of the delusion that a change in form is a change in substance.
- It is, indeed, one of the capital tragedies of youth-and youth is the time of real tragedy-that the young are thrown mainly with adults they…
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