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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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All [zoos] Actually Offer To The Public

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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