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More from H. L. Mencken

  1. Do [English Teachers] believe that the aim of teaching English is to increase the exact and beautiful use of the language? Or that it is to inculcate and augme…

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  2. A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.

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  3. Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong…

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