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Tuesday, November 3, 2015
Epic Snark
H. L. Mencken, snidely defining "puritanism," as quoted by Ed Driscoll, guest
blogging
at
Instapundit
.
Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
Happiness cannot be permitted to occur, can it?
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