 ago today.
Mencken summed up his philosophy of life this way:
“Man is the yokel par excellence, the booby unmatchable, the king dupe of the cosmos. He is chronically and inescapably deceived, not only by the other animals and by the delusive factor of nature herself, but also and more particularly by himself — by his incontrovertible talent for searching out and embracing what is false, and for overlooking and denying what is true.”