Quotation of the Day…

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… is from page 234 of the 1997 Johns Hopkins University Press edition of H.L. Mencken’s brilliant 1956 collection, Minority Report:

When I hear a man applauded by the mob I always feel a pang of pity for him. All he has to do to be hissed is to live long enough. Remember the tragedies of Wilson and Roosevelt I. In their last days they were peeping sadly from the curtains like worn-out actors, as new and worse mountebanks took their places. The mob is faithful only to its infidelity. It always stones those it has worshipped.