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• There are some people who read too much: the bibliobibuli.
  I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion....
• I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.
  -- H. L. Mencke...
• The 3 men I admire the most: The Father, The Son & The Holy Spirit.
• One of the merits of democracy is quite obvious: it is perhaps the most charming form of government ever devised by man.
  The reason is not far to seek. It is based on propositions that are palpably not true -- and what is not true, as everyone knows, is always immensely more fascinating and satisfying to the vast majority of men than what is true....
• Whenever 'A' attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon 'B', 'A' is most likely a scoundrel" - H.
  L. Mencke...
• The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true.
  It is the chief occupation of mankind. -- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)...
• Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.
  There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent....
• The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
  -- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)...