If experience teaches us anything at all, it teaches us this: that a g…

H. L. Mencken
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If experience teaches us anything at all, it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. ✨ H.L. MENCKEN (1958). PREJUDICES A SELECTION
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If experience teaches us anything at all, it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. ✨ H.L. MENCKEN (1958). PREJUDICES A SELECTION

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