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Quotation by H.L. Mencken
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It is the place where all the aspirations of the Western World meet to form one vast master aspiration, as powerful as the suction of a steam dredge. It is the icing on the pie called Christian civilization.
H.L. (Henry Lewis) Mencken (1880–1956), U.S. journalist. Prejudices, ch. 9, Sixth Series (1927).
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