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• No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
  --H.L. Mencken, philosophe...
• Quote #150 No one ever got broke by underestimating the intelligence of the American people.
  -- Phineas T. Barnum...
• His magazine [Wallace's Reader's Digest] is so bad it may go over.
  There's no underestimating the intelligence of the American public....
• All the postmasters in small towns read all the postcards.
  -- Mencken and Nathan's Second Law of The Average American -- H. L. Mencke...
• One horse laugh is worth 10,000 syllogisms. -- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
• It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
  -- H. L. Mencken, Notebooks, 1956...
• To be happy one must be a) well fed, unhounded by sordid care
  at ease in Zion, b) full of a comfortable feeling of superiority to the masses of one's fellow men, and c) delicately and unceasingly amused according to one's taste....
• A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.
  -- H. L. Mencke...
• Democracy is the theory that the people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
  -- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)...