Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.


Sententiæ: The Citizen and the State, p. 624 - A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)


Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.