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Letter "P" » penitentiary
«If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.»
«The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its debt in the penitentiary or the poor house»
«If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you»
«All (zoos) actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
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Critic,
Journalist)
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Keywords:
amusement,
ennobling,
informing,
legislature,
penitentiary,
session,
stimulating,
tax form,
tax return,
witless,
zoos
«I shall not often meddle with politics, because we have a political Editor who is already excellent and only needs to serve a term or two in the penitentiary to be perfect»