Henry Louis Mencken
"If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl. H. L. Mencken Girl, Remember, Forgive Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage."
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"Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop."
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
"Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence."
"In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican."
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong."