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Quotation by H.L. Mencken

A skeptic as to all ideas, including especially my own, I have never suffered a pang when the ideas of some other imbecile prevailed.
H.L. (Henry Lewis) Mencken (1880–1956), U.S. journalist, critic. Originally published in the Smart Set (April 1920). The Vintage Mencken, ch. 14, p. 76, ed. Alistair Cooke, Vintage (1956).
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