Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong.
~ H. L. Mencken
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Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong.
~ H. L. Mencken
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Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.
~ H. L. Mencken
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Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong.
~ H. L. Mencken
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Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got used to it.
~ H. L. Mencken
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Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.
~ H. L. Mencken
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it is also more nourishing.
~ H. L. Mencken
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It will never make any difference to a hero what the laws are. Their greatness will shine and accomplish itself unto the end, whether they second him or not.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The best of beauty is a finer charm than skill in surfaces, in outlines, or rules of art can ever teach, namely, a radiation from the work of art of human character — a wonderful expression through stone, or canvas, or musical sound, of the deepest and simplest attributes of our nature, and therefore most intelligible at last to those souls which have these attributes.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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