All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling. - H. L. Mencken

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H. L. Mencken: "All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling."

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Actually	Amusement	Compared	Ennobling
Even	Form	Idle	Informing
Legislature	Offer	Penitentiary	Public
Return	Session	Spent	State
Stimulating	Taxes	Them	Upon
Visit	Witless	Zoos

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