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"The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animals. Some of their most esteemed inventions have no other apparent purpose, for example, the dinner party of more than two, the epic poem, and the science of metaphysics."

- H.L. Mencken, who was born on this day in 1880, and with whom I couldn't be more proud to share a birthday (even more so than Jesse Owens, Barry White and Ben Folds).