The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.
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The average man gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him.Henry Louis Mencken
A man is called a good fellow for doing things which, if done by a woman, would land her in a lunatic asylum.
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It is a sin to believe evil of others, But it is seldom a mistake.
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After all, why be good How many will actually believe it of us.
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It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone that even the dullest man, in these bright days, knows more than any man of, say, the Eighteenth Century, and is far more civilized. This assumption is quite erroneous.... The great masses of men, even in this inspired republic, are precisely where the mob was at the dawn of history. They are ignorant, they are dishonest, they are cowardly, they are ignoble. They know little if anything that is worth knowing, and there is not the slightest sign of a natural desire among them to increase their knowledge.
Henry Louis Mencken
School days are the unhappiest in the whole span if human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, with brutal violations of common sense and common decency.
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