H. L. Mencken
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The liberation of the human mind has never been furthered by dunderheads; it has been furthered by gay fellows who heaved dead cats into sanctuaries and then went roistering down the highways of the world, proving to all men that doubt, after all, was safe - that the god in the sanctuary was finite in his power and hence a fraud. One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent. ✨ Clinical Notes. The American Mercury (January 1924), p. 75; later quoted in H. L. Mencken Prejudices: Fourth Series, 1924.

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