archive.org | --> | The portion after the second semicolon is widely paraphrased or misquoted. Two examples are "For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong" and "There is always an easy solution to every human problem -- neat, plausible, and wrong."
More quotes by H. L. Mencken
It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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