The truth is, as every one knows, that the great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man -- that is, virtuous in the Y.M.C.A. sense -- has ever painted a picture worth looking at, or written a symphony worth hearing, or a book worth reading, and it is highly improbable that the thing has ever been done by a virtuous woman. - H. L. Mencken

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H. L. Mencken: "The truth is, as every one knows, that the great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man -- that is, virtuous in the Y.M.C.A. sense -- has ever painted a picture worth looking at, or written a symphony worth hearing, or a book worth reading, and it is highly improbable that the thing has ever been done by a virtuous woman."

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Artists	Book	Done	Even
Every	Great	Hearing	Highly
Improbable	Knows	Looking	Ordinarily
Painted	Picture	Puritans	Reading
Respectable	Seldom	Sense	Symphony
Thing	Truth	Virtuous	Woman
World	Worth	Written	Ymca

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