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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H. L. Mencken

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
H. L. Mencken

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
H. L. Mencken

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
H. L. Mencken

A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
H. L. Mencken

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
H. L. Mencken

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
H. L. Mencken

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