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" It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause. "
H. L. Mencken
Sound
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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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" 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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" Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. "
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" The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt. "
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" When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands. "
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" Most people want security in this world, not liberty. "
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" It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf. "
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" The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught. "
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" Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil. "
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" Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself. "
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" Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. "
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" In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. "
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" Adultery is the application of democracy to love. "
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" The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind. "
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True
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" A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married. "
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" In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft. "
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" Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed. "
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Exposed
" War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands. "
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" Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body. "
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Temptation
Force
" Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly. "
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" I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine. "
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" The only really happy folk are married women and single men. "
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" Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. "
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" A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman. "
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Time
Man
" A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there. "
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Church
" To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess. "
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" Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong. "
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" Judge: a law student who marks his own examination-papers. "
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" I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant. "
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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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