No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the recor…

H. L. Mencken
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No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me - has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. ✨ Chicago Tribune, 19 Sept. 1926.
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No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me - has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. ✨ Chicago Tribune, 19 Sept. 1926.

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