H. L. Mencken said this quote

“ The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear-fear of the unknown the complex the inexplicable. What he wants beyond everything else is safety. ”

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Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

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Nothing can come out of an artist that is not in the man.

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The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy but that it is a bore.

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A prohibitionist is the sort of man one wouldn't care to drink with - even if he drank.

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