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  • Perhaps each society's richer people are also happier because happiness comes not from absolute wealth but from relative wealth--recall H.L. Mencken's quip that "a wealthy man is one who earns $100 a year more than his wife's sister's husband."

    Money Doesn't Make People Happy Tim Harford 2006

  • To paraphrase H.L. Mencken, Gensler and the rest of the DC crowd seem to be financial Puritans, haunted by the fear that somewhere, in the darkest recesses of the OTC market, consenting adults may be happy, making mutually beneficial deals.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2010

  • To paraphrase H.L. Mencken, nobody ever went broke underestimating the financial intelligence of the American public; there always will be some people with money who will buy something from a salesperson

    InvestmentNews.com Latest Headlines 2010

  • Scopes trial delete important information and introduce unjustified statements, like calling the H.L. Mencken a "cultural conservative."

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • Scopes trial delete important information and introduce unjustified statements, like calling the H.L. Mencken a "cultural conservative."

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • Scopes trial delete important information and introduce unjustified statements, like calling the H.L. Mencken a "cultural conservative."

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • Scopes trial delete important information and introduce unjustified statements, like calling the H.L. Mencken a "cultural conservative."

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • Scopes trial delete important information and introduce unjustified statements, like calling the H.L. Mencken a "cultural conservative."

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • Scopes trial delete important information and introduce unjustified statements, like calling the H.L. Mencken a "cultural conservative."

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • Scopes trial delete important information and introduce unjustified statements, like calling the H.L. Mencken a "cultural conservative."

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

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