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More from H. L. Mencken

  1. Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.

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  2. 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 ai…

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  3. Progress: The process whereby the human race has got rid of whiskers, the vermiform appendix and God.

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