H. L. Mencken
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The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
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Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.
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It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
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Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.