Simple and wrong

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

H. L. Mencken

1920, Prejudices: Second Series by H. L. Mencken (Henry Louis Mencken), Chapter 4: The Divine Afflatus, Start Page 155, Borzoi: Alfred A. Knopf, New York.(but often attributed to othere as well)

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"There is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong. "
   --H. L. Mencken, 1920, Prejudices: Second Series by H. L. Mencken (Henry Louis Mencken), Chapter 4: The Divine Afflatus, Start Page 155, Borzoi: Alfred A. Knopf, New York.(but often attributed to othere as well)