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More from H. L. Mencken

  1. Sunday School: A prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

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  2. The argument that capital punishment degrades the state is moonshine, for if that were true then it would degrade the state to send men to war... The state, in…

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  3. Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

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