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" Honor is simply the morality of superior men. "
H. L. Mencken
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" I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time. "
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" Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them. "
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" A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier. "
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" A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers. "
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" To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true! "
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" The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. "
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" If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish. "
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" The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable. "
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" A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them. "
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