Wisdom for your Wednesday

But the whole thing, after all, may be put very simply.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie.

I believe that it is better to be free than to be a slave.

And i believe that it is better to know,

than to be ignorant.

~H.L.Mencken

Henry Louis Mencken was an American journalist, essayist and magazine editor among other things. He is regarded as one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the first half of the 20th century. He is known for writting The American Language, a multi-volume study of how the English language is spoken in the United States, and also for his controversial ideas. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland September 12 1880 and died in his sleep on January 29, 1956.