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H. L. Mencken Quotes: We must be prepared to pay a price for freedom, for no price that is ever asked for it is half the cost of doing without it.
         

We must be prepared to pay a price for freedom, for no price that is ever asked for it is half the cost of doing without it.


H. L. Mencken
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