PURITANISM: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) American writer and journalist [Henry Lewis Mencken]
“Arcana Coelestia,”
A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
Added on 16-Sep-14 | Last updated 2-May-16
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