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«A man is called a good fellow for doing things which, if done by a woman, would land her in a lunatic asylum»
«Truth would quickly cease to become stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it»
«A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Society
| Keywords:
individuals, made-up, original, unendurable
«Theology-An effort to explain the unknowable by putting it into terms of the not worth knowing»
«The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Foolishness
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costly, follies, occupation, palpably, passionately
«Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince»
«Truth: Something somehow discreditable to someone»
«No article of faith is proof against the disintegrating effects of increasing information; one might almost describe the acquirement of knowledge as a process of disillusion»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
acquirement, acquirements, article, article of faith, disillusion, disintegrate, disintegrated, disintegrates, disintegrating, increasing
«The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor»
«The first Rotarian was the first man to call John the Baptist, Jack.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
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Baptist, Baptists, first man, jack, John the Baptist, Rotarian
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