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More from H. L. Mencken

  1. The professor must be an obscurantist or he is nothing; he has a special and unmatchable talent for dullness, his central aim is not to expose the truth clearl…

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  2. The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

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  3. A man full of faith is simply one who has lost (or never had) the capacity for clear and realistic thought. He is not a mere ass; he is actually ill. Worse, he…

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