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Quotes from The American Language — H. L. Mencken

1880–1956 United States

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Philadelphia is the most pecksniffian of American cities, and thus probably leads the world.

The American Language (1919)

A novelty loses nothing by the fact that it is a novelty; it rather gains something, and particularly if it meets the national fancy for the terse, the vivid, and, above all, the bold and imaginative.

The American Language (1919)

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