The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.


H. L. Mencken

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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
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a n d a l l t h e d ...
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Family is the most important thing in the world.
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
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In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice t...
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led t...
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It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sou...
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Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will a...
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Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of...
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Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what...
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Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven...
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Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
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No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed age...
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The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexpl...
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No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice...
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I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of peop...
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The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regar...
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Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.
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If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries fo...
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It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get ...
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Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.
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Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom nec...
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For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our f...
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Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.
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Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
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Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he fo...
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Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.
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Archbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.
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Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
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Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time ma...
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Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and mis...
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A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and ...
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There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are goo...
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