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More from H. L. Mencken

  1. It is [a politician's] business to get and hold his job at all costs. If he can hold it by lying, he will hold it by lying; if lying peters out, he will try to…

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  2. To a clergyman lying under a vow of chastity any act of sex is immoral, but his abhorrence of it naturally increases in proportion as it looks safe and is corr…

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  3. When A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel.

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