“If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.”

—  H.L. Mencken

"Epitaph" from Smart Set (December 1921)
1920s

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American journalist and writer 1880–1956

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