H. L. Mencken

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The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

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Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

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fear

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

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freedom

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

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Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

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funny

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

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It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

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god

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.

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The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.

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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

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