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Quotation by H.L. Mencken
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Don't tell me what delusion he entertains regarding God, or what mountebank he follows in politics, or what he springs from, or what he submits to from his wife. Simply tell me how he makes his living. It is the safest and surest of all known tests. A man who gets his board and lodging on this ball in an ignominious way is inevitably an ignominious man.
H.L. (Henry Lewis) Mencken (1880–1956), U.S. journalist, critic. First printed in the Smart Set (November 1922). "The Slave," from Prejudices: Fourth Series, p. 200, Knopf (1924).
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