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• No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American people.
  -- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)...
• His magazine [Wallace's Reader's Digest] is so bad it may go over.
  There's no underestimating the intelligence of the American public....
• Quote #150 No one ever got broke by underestimating the intelligence of the American people.
  -- Phineas T. Barnum...
• 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)
• The public demands certainties; it must be told definitely and a bit raucously that this is true and that is false.
  But there are no certainties. -- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956), "Prejudice...
• 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....
• There are two kinds of books: those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.
  -- H. L. Mencke...
• Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
  -- H. L. Mencke...