Oscar_Cunningham comments on Rationality Quotes September 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Patrick 04 September 2011 01:37:22PM *  3 points [-]

I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race, and that no trumpeting of falsehood, however virtuous in intent, can be anything but vicious.

-- HL Mencken

Comment author: Oscar_Cunningham 04 September 2011 05:28:20PM 4 points [-]

This is quoted already on this page albeit with "no matter" substituted for "however".