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H L Mencken
: The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
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A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.
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Demagogue: One who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
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A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world.
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A striking feature of moral and political argument in the modern world is the extent to which it is innovators, radicals, and revolutionaries who revive old doctrines, while their conservative and reactionary opponents are the inventors of new ones.
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The nuttes schell, thocht it be hard and teuch, Haldis the kirnill, and is delectabill. Sa lyis thair ane doctrine wyse aneuch, And full of fruit, under ane fenyeit Fabill.
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It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
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Familiarity breed contempt.
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Familiarity breeds contempt; and children.
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Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
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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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A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
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