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Counterexamples: Exhibit A: The battle of Marathon. Exhibit B: Teachers.
Mencken probably meant "inconvenient" truths. If you insert this qualifier, the rest of the phrase becomes trivial.
I question this example. Teachers are subject to the same restrictions regarding truthtelling.
Uncomfortable-truth telling yes, but they still impart massive amounts of truth, as in truth-as-empirically-valid-information.