I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.
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Quotations by H. L. Mencken
I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing. H. L. Mencken
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