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...the basic delusion that men may be governed and yet be free.
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A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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A formula for answering controversial letters -- without even reading the letters Dear Sir (or Madame) You may be right.
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A home is not a mere transient shelter its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.
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A man always blames the woman who fooled him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.
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A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity. His most gaudy sayings and doings seldom deceive them they see the actual man within, and know him for a shallow and pathetic fellow. In this fact, perhaps, lies one of the best proofs of feminine intelligence, or, as the common phrase makes it, feminine intuition.
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A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
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A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
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A sound American is simply one who has put out of his mind all doubts and questionings, and who accepts instantly, and as incontrovertible gospel, the whole body of official doctrine of his day, whatever it may be and no matter how often it may change. The instant he challenges it, no matter how timorously and academically, he ceases by that much to be a loyal and creditable citizen of the republic.
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Author : H. L. Mencken
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