The mistake that is made always runs the other way. Because the plain people are able to speak and understand, and even, in many cases, to read and write, it is assumed that they have ideas in their heads, and an appetite for more. This assumption is a folly.


A gang of pecksniffs: and other comments on newspaper publishers, editors and reporters (ed. Crown, 1975)

H. L. Mencken Quotes

The mistake that is made always runs the other way. Because the plain people are able to speak and understand, and even, in many cases, to read and...

The mistake that is made always runs the other way. Because the plain people are able to speak and understand, and even, in many cases, to read and...

The mistake that is made always runs the other way. Because the plain people are able to speak and understand, and even, in many cases, to read and...

The mistake that is made always runs the other way. Because the plain people are able to speak and understand, and even, in many cases, to read and...