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Moment Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- The great masses of men, though theoretically free, are seen to submit supinely to oppression and exploitation of a hundred abhorrent sorts. Have they no…
- It is the invariable habit of bureaucracies, at all times and everywhere, to assume...that every citizen is a criminal. Their one apparent purpose, pursued with…
- No man could bring himself to reveal his true character, and, above all, his true limitations as a citizen and a Christian, his true meannesses,…
- Consider... the university professor. What is his function? Simply to pass on to fresh generations of numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary,…
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