For men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt
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The American people, taken one with another, constitute the most timorous, sniveling, poltroonish, ignominious mob of serfs and goose-steppers ever gathered under one flag in Christendom since the end of the middle ages
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There is no record in history of a happy philosopher.
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No one in this world, so far as I know has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people
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Misogynist A man who hates women as much as women hate one another
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