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Natural 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…
- The most popular man under a democracy is not the most democratic man, but the most despotic man. The common folk delight in the exactions…
- It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone - that even the dullest man, in these bright days, knows more than any man…
- The natural tendency of every government is to grow steadily worse-that is, to grow more satisfactory to those who constitute it and less satisfactory to…
- The average man gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him.
- The fact is that liberty, in any true sense, is a concept that lies quite beyond the reach of the inferior man's mind. And no…
- There is, in fact, no reason to believe that any given natural phenomenon, however marvelous it may seem today, will remain forever inexplicable. Soon or…
- For it is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not true. In order to overcome that tendency it is not sufficient…
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