"The smallest atom of truth represents some man's bitter toil and agony; for every ponderable chunk of it there is a brave truth-seeker's grave upon some lonely ash-dump and a soul roasting in Hell."
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H. L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949), Vintage, 1982, p. 15
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