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More from H. L. Mencken

  1. Poverty is a soft pedal upon the branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual.

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  2. The public...demands certainties...But there are no certainties.

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  3. To the man with an ear for verbal delicacies - the man who searches painfully for the perfect word, and puts the way of saying a thing above the thing said - t…

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