H.L. Mencken: Useless & Evil Things
on Tuesday, January 5, 2016H.L. Mencken Money Quotation saying total volume of spending in a rich city exceeds the entire budget of a small country. H.L. Mencken said:
During many a single week, I daresay, more money is spent in New York upon useless and evil things than would suffice to run the kingdom of Denmark for a year
— H.L. Mencken