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• Puritanism -- the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
  -- H.L. Mencken, "A Book of Burlesque...
• A Puritan is someone who is deathly afraid that someone, somewhere, is having fun.
  -- H. L. Mencke...
• Alimony: the ransom that the happy pay to the devil. -- H. L. Mencke
• A man may be a fool and not know it -- but not if he is married. -- H. L. Mencke
• Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
  -- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)...
• A prohibitionist is someone one wouldn't want to drink with, even if he did drink.
  -- H. L. Mencke...
• Time is the great legalizer, even in the field of morals.
  -- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956), "A Book of Prefaces", 1917...
• Jimmy Swaggart is haunted by the omnivorous fear that someone, somewhere, is able to be happy without sending him money.
• Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
  -- H. L. Mencken, "Prejudices", Series iii...