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QUOTATION:The editors are committed to nothing save this: to keep common sense as fast as they can, to belabor sham as agreeably as possible, to give civilized entertainment.
ATTRIBUTION:H.L. (Henry Lewis) Mencken (18801956), U.S. journalist, critic. Originally published in American Mercury. A Carnival of Buncombe, Introduction, p. xiv, The Johns Hopkins Press (1956).

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