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If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

H.L. Mencken

H.L. (Henry Lewis) Mencken (1880–1956), U.S. journalist, critic. First printed in the Smart Set, December 1921. "Epitaph," from A Mencken Chrestomathy, p. 627, Knopf (1949).

He wrote this in the prime of life; I don't think it is his actual epitaph, just another sample of his wit.

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