| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 39136 |
| QUOTATION: | TruthSomething somehow discreditable to someone. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | H.L. (Henry Lewis) Mencken (18801956), U.S. journalist, critic. A Mencken Chrestomathy, ch. 30, p. 618, Knopf (1949). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Mencken Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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