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" Criticism is prejudice made plausible. "
H. L. Mencken
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Made
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" It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man. "
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" Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious. "
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" No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight. "
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" Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it. "
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" Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas. "
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" It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf. "
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" An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup. "
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" If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl. "
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" For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. "
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" In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft. "
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" The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt. "
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" There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong. "
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" Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. "
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" Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends. "
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" A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers. "
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" It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously. "
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" Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods. "
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" There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor. "
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" The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety. "
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