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Puritanism: the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happ

Puritanism: the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. – H.L. Mencken

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When I die I shall be content to vanish into nothingness…. No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever…. I do not believe in immortality, and have no desire for it. – H.L. Mencken

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

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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. – H.L. Mencken

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Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christs religion illuminates with His divine light. – Franz Liszt

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