• The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

  Source: A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)

  Henry Louis Mencken
  American journalist and critic 1880-1956
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The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind. by : Henry Louis Mencken

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