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H L Mencken Quotes

"No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public""It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place""Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under""The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom""All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it""In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell""Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone may be looking""Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage""For every complex problem, there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong""A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar""Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy"