Here is something that the psychologists have so far neglected: the lo…

H. L. Mencken
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Here is something that the psychologists have so far neglected: the love of ugliness for its own sake, the lust to make the world intolerable. Its habitat is the United States. Out of the melting pot emerges a race which hates beauty as it hates truth. ✨ H.L. Mencken (2012). Mencken Chrestomathy, p.576, Vintage
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