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Letter "P" » phrenology
«Psychoanalysis will fade away just as mesmerism and phrenology did, and for the same reason - its exploded pretensions will deprive it of recruits»
«PHRENOLOGY, n. The science of picking the pocket through the scalp. It consists in locating and exploiting the organ that one is a dupe with.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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Editor,
Journalist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
dupe,
duped,
dupes,
exploiting,
locate,
located,
locating,
organ,
phrenology,
scalp,
scalped,
The Organ
«I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Essayist,
Lecturer,
Poet)
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Keywords:
Americanism,
apprenticeship,
Economy of,
mastery,
midnight,
phrenology,
raps,
shallow,
tables