| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 39079 |
| QUOTATION: | What ass first let loose the doctrine that the suffrage is a high boon and voting a noble privilege? |
| ATTRIBUTION: | H.L. (Henry Lewis) Mencken (1880–1956), U.S. journalist, critic. Originally published in the Baltimore Evening Sun, November 1, 1920. A Carnival of Buncombe, p. 32, ed. by Malcolm Moos, Johns Hopkins University Press (1956).
Article written on eve of election of President Harding. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Mencken Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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