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“Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.”

H. L. Mencken · History

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I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

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The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.

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The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

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A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.

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