"Good government is that which delivers the citizen from being done out of his life and property too arbitrarily and violently-one that relieves him sufficiently from the barbaric business of guarding them to enable him to engage in gentler, more dignified, and more agreeable undertakings..."

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H. L. Mencken

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“If family religion were duly attended to and properly discharged, I think the preaching of the Word would not be the common instrument of conversion.”
“I like bad boys, and I like to take them home to my mom.”
“Five days or five months, but it certainly isn't going to last longer.”
“I knew about holiness, never having missed a Sunday-school class since I started at four years. But if Jews were also religious, how could our neighbor with the grease-grimy shirt use the word 'damn' about them?”

Source : Paul Engle (1996). “A Lucky American Childhood”, p.151, University of Iowa Press
“It generally takes its rise either from an ill-will to mankind, a private inclination to make ourselves esteemed, an ostentation of wit, and vanity of being thought in the secrets of the world; or from a desire of gratifying any of these dispositions of mind in those persons with whom we converse.”
“Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is.”
“I was frequently told at drama school that I was thinking too much.”
“Itâ€™s crazy to think North West can already read better than Kendall Jenner.”

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