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Quotes from A Book of Prefaces — H. L. Mencken

1880–1956 United States

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

A Book of Prefaces (1917)

Time is the great legalizer, even in the field of morals.

A Book of Prefaces (1917)

The virulence of the national appetite for bogus revelation.

A Book of Prefaces (1917)

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 — there is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.

A Book of Prefaces (1917)

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