"Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong."
— Explanations

January 1, 1970

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H. L. Mencken, "The Divine Afflatus" in New York Evening Mail (16 November 1917); later published in Prejudices: Second Series (1920) and A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949).