A man full of faith is simply one who has lost the capacity for clear and realistic thought. - H. L. Mencken

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The secrets of nature are concealed; her agency is perpetual, but we do not always discover its effects; time reveals them from age to age; and although she is always the same in herself, she is not always equally well known.

H. L. Mencken

A man full of faith is simply one who has lost the capacity for clear and realistic thought.

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People do not expect to find chastity in a whorehouse. Why, then, do they expect to find honesty and humanity in government, a congeries of institutions whose modus operandi consists of lying, cheating, stealing, and if need be, murdering those who resist?

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