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• The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
  -- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956), Prejudices, Third Series", 1922...
• The cynics are right nine times out of ten. -- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
• Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
  -- H. L. Mencken, "Prejudices", Series iii...
• The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.
  -- H. L. Mencken, Prejudices, First Serie...
• Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
  -- H. L. Mencke...
• Nine times out of ten the statisticians are wrong.
• The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth--that the error and truth are simply opposite.
  They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one....
• The only way for a reporter to look at a politician is down. -- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
• Every man sees in his relatives a series of grotesque caricatures of himself. -- H. L. Mencke