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“What really teaches man is not experiences, but observation. It is observation that enables him to make use of the vastly greater experience of other men, of men taken in the mass. He learns by noting what happens to them. Confined to what happens to himself, he labors eternally under an insufficiency of data.”
H. L. Mencken
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“The fact that I have no remedy for all the sorrows of the world is
no reason for my accepting yours.”
H. L. Mencken
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“The believing mind is externally impervious to evidence. The most that can be accomplished with it is to induce it to substitute one delusion for another. It rejects all overt evidence as wicked.”
H. L. Mencken
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“Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.”
H.L. Mencken
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“The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the forties he is at the maximum of his villainy.”
H. L. Mencken
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“The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.”
H. L. Mencken
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“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”
H. L. Mencken
