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H. L. Mencken

"Penetrating so many secrets we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless calmly licking its chops."

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"Penetrating so many secrets we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless calmly licking its chops."

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