"There is always an easy solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong."
— Problem solving

January 1, 1970

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H. L. Mencken, "The Divine Afflatus", originally published in the New York Evening Mail (November 16, 1917); reprinted in Prejudices: Second Series (1920), and A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949), chapter 25, p. 443.