Quotation by H.L. Mencken

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
H.L. (Henry Lewis) Mencken (1880–1956), U.S. journalist. "Scientific Examination of a Popular Virtue," Prejudices, Second Series (1920).
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