Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
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A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and truth in front of patriotic passion.H. L. Mencken
The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. . . . The average man simply spends his leisure as a dog spends it. His recreations are all puerile, and the time supposed to benefit him really only stupefies him.
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Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
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What the mob thirsts for is not good government in itself, but the merry chase of a definite exponent of bad government.
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Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
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If Los Angeles is not the one authentic rectum of civilization, then I am no anatomist. Any time you want to go out again and burn it down, count me in.
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