There are some people who read too much The bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as others are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.
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The fact is that liberty, in any true sense, is a concept that lies quite beyond the reach of the inferior man's mind. And no wonder, for genuine liberty demands of its votaries a quality he lacks completely, and that is courage. The man who loves it must be willing to fight for it blood, said Jefferson, is its natural manure. Liberty means self-reliance, it means resolution, it means the capacity for doing without ... the average man doesn't want to be free. He wants to be safe.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.
Henry Louis Mencken
The average man gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him.
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Hanging one scoundrel, it appears, does not deter the next. Well, what of it The first one at least is disposed of.
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It is a sin to believe evil of others, But it is seldom a mistake.
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The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
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