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No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. – H.L. Mencken

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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. – H.L. Mencken

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A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are reserved for men favored by God with an extraordinary genius for swathing the bitter facts of life in bandages of self-illusion. – H.L. Mencken

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America fears the unshaven legs, the unshaven mens cheeks, the aroma of perspiration, and the limp prick. Above all it fears the limp prick. – Walter Abish

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America, for me, has been the pursuit and catching of happiness. – Aurora Raigne

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In America, if you put your mind to it you can have anything you want. You just cant have everything you want. – Bernard Baruch

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Americans like fat books and thin women. – Russell Baker

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