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• Cynics are right nine times out of ten; what undoes them is their belief that they are right ten times out of ten.
  -- Professor Charles P. Issawi...
• 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. -- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956), "Prejudices, Third Series", 1922...
• Nine times out of ten the statisticians are wrong.
• I believe in instinct, not in reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.
  -- A. C. Benso...
• If someone gives you so-called good advice, do the opposite
  you can be sure it will be the right thing nine out of ten times. -- Anselm Feuerbach...
• It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
  -- H. L. Mencken, Notebooks, 1956...
• 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...
• Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
  -- H. L. Mencke...
• H. L. Mencken suffers from the hallucination that he is H.
  L. Mencken -- there is no cure for a disease of that magnitude. -- Maxwell Bodenheim...