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Quotes from Prejudices: Third Series — H. L. Mencken

1880–1956 United States

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The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10,000 revolutions a minute. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. Religion is the theory that the wheel was designed and set spinning to give him a ride.

Prejudices: Third Series (1917)

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