The public, with its mob yearning to be instructed, edified and pulled by the nose, demands certainties it must be told definitely and a bit raucously that this is true and that is false. But there are no certainties. (H. L. Mencken)

The public, with its mob yearning to be instructed, edified and pulled by the nose, demands certainties it must be told definitely and a bit raucously that this is true and that is false. But there are no certainties.

H. L. Mencken

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