Today's Quotefall Puzzle by H.L. Mencken

Self-Published | 3/20/2020 | Self-Published

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Today's Quotefall Puzzle features a quote by H.L. Mencken. Click puzzle (or click here) for full size rendition, then use your browser's print command to print puzzle. 

H.L. Mencken was an American journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic whose distrust of government was tempered only by his wit regarding cigar haters. 

All hints, along with the answer, are provided in the first reply comment below, using filtered font to prevent accidental spoilers. Please refrain from disclosing the full answer in comments to prevent spoilers.

To solve the puzzle:

• Enter the letters in the top half (letter columns) of the puzzle into the white squares on the bottom half (answer grid) below
• Each letter must stay in its own column within the grid
• Each letter must be used exactly once
• Black squares represent spaces and do not get letters
• Gray squares represent punctuation marks or numbers and do not get letters
• Some words will continue from one row to another. Only spaces (black squares) or punctuation marks separate words.

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NOTE: Hints are formatted in difficult-to-read yellow font to prevent inadvertent spoilers.

Highlight filtered (light yellow-colored) words to reveal hints and answer as needed. Hint words may be included more than once in the quote.

Word Hint 1: SALE

Word Hint 2: PILLAGE

Word Hint 3: SORT

First 3 words: GOVERNMENT IS A

ANSWER: GOVERNMENT IS A BROKER IN PILLAGE, AND ELECTIONS ARE A SORT OF ADVANCE AUCTION SALE OF STOLEN GOODS.

PRO TIP: On a desktop, triple-clicking anywhere in a row will highlight and reveal the entire row.

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Previous quotefalls

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H.L. Mencken Quotes:

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.

No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

There is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong.

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I have about 40 quotes from Mencken, but those are definitely the memorable ones. I try to create timely quotes for Free Republic, usually by taking quotes given from news the day before, but for the most part I have about 50,000 quotes to choose from on any given day. Unfortunately, posts have to be done live on Free Republic so the post times aren’t as consistent as I’d like it to be.

[Red Badger]

Mencken and Heinlein are twin sons of different mothers................