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Said Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- The course of the United States in World War II, I said, was dishonest, dishonorable, and ignominious, and the Sunpapers, by supporting Roosevelt's foreign policy,…
- 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…
- The theatre, when all is said and done, is not life in miniature, but life enormously magnified, life hideously exaggerated.
- To the man with an ear for verbal delicacies- the man who searches painfully for the perfect word, and puts the way of saying a…
- Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly. He is like a watch of which the most that can be said is that its…
- Of government, at least in democratic states, it may be said briefly that it is an agency engaged wholesale, and as a matter of solemn…
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