"The value the world sets upon motives is often grossly unjust and inaccurate."
— Motivation

January 1, 1970

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H. L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949), p. 12. This is the opening sentence of his essay, The Scientist, first published in The Smart Set, August 1919.