"The advantage of the animal over the vegetable kingdom is obvious. The cabbage, should its environment tend to become worse, must live it out, or die; the rabbit may move on in quest of a better."
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H. L. Mencken September 12, 1880 to January 29, 1956 Born & Died in Baltimore, Maryland Writer, editor, publisher, critic, reporter and renowned curmudgeon. Mencken is most widely remembered as the source of a thousand quotes. His most impressive work was The American Language.
Quote "Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone may be looking."
Off-Site Resource The Official Website Of The H. L. Mencken Society
Bibliography (a selection) George Bernard Shaw: His Plays - 1905 The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche - 1907 A Book of Burlesques - 1916 A Little Book in C Major - 1916 Pistols for Two - 1917 A Book of Prefaces - 1917 In Defense of Women - 1917 Damn! A Book of Calumny - 1918 The American Language - 1919
Prejudices First Series - 1919 Second Series - 1920 Third Series - 1922 Fourth Series - 1924 Fifth Series - 1926 Sixth Series - 1927 Selected Prejudices - 1927
Notes on Democracy - 1926 Treatise on the Gods - 1930 Making a President - 1932 Treatise on Right and Wrong - 1934 Happy Days, (1880 - 1892) - 1940 Newspaper Days, (1899 - 1906) - 1941 Heathen Days, (1890 - 1936) - 1943
An index of all author pages on Happy Dead Trees
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"The advantage of the animal over the vegetable kingdom is obvious. The cabbage, should its environment tend to become worse, must live it out, or die; the rabbit may move on in quest of a better."
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