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H L Mencken
: The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what They want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
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The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.
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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
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Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
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Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
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Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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