“In one long glorious acknowledgment of failure, he laid himself bare before God.”
Source: The Testament
“The theory seems to be that so long as a man is a failure he is one of God's chillun, but that as soon as he has any luck he owes it to the Devil.”
1940s–present, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
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