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«Nothing is more patent, indeed, than the fact that charity merely converts the unfit - who, in the course of nature, would soon die out and so cease to encumber the earth - into parasites - who live on indefinitely, a nuisance and a burden to their b»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
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Charity
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converts, die out, encumber, encumbered, encumbering, encumbers, indefinitely, patent, unfit
«Has the great art and mystery of politics no apparent utility? Does it appear to be unqualifiedly ratty, raffish, sordid, obscene and low down, and its salient virtuosi a gang of umitigated scoundrels? Then let us not forget its high capacity to soo»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
apparent, low-down, obscene, raffish, ratty, salient, scoundrels, unqualifiedly, utility, virtuosi, virtuoso
«Progress is the process whereby the human race is getting rid of whiskers, the veriform appendix and God»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
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Progress
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appendix, whisker, whiskers
«Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible»
«I'm thoroughly convinced that editors don't help authors»
«A critic is a man who writes about things he doesn't like»
«Gynecologists: perhaps the most ignorant class of men, when it comes to knowledge of women, in the country»
«Every great wave of popular passion that rolls up on the prairies is dashed to spray when it strikes the hard rocks of Manhattan»
«The notion that artists flourish upon adversity and misunderstanding, that they are able to function to the utmost in an atmosphere of indifference or hostility - this notion is nine-tenths nonsense»
«No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.»
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