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«Every man is thoroughly happy twice in his life: just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last one»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
First love,
Happiness
| Keywords:
First Love
«Psychology: The theory that the patient will probably get well anyhow, and is certainly a damned fool»
«I give you Chicago. It is not London and Harvard. It is not Paris and buttermilk. It is American in every chitling and sparerib. It is alive from snout to tail.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
America and Americans,
Chicago,
Cities
| Keywords:
buttermilk, Chicago, Harvard, Paris, snout, sparerib, tail
«Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.»
«Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
caricatured, caricatures, cousins, grotesque, grotesques, relatives
«The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Appreciation,
Money
| Keywords:
overestimate, overestimated, overestimates
«In order to teach chemistry or psychology or even history or Greek a man must actually know something, but for the teacher of English nothing seems to be necessary beyond a crude capacity to read and write»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
chemistry, crude, English teacher, Greek, Greek a, psychology, The Teacher
«Jury: A group of 12 people, who, having lied to the judge about their health, hearing, and business engagements, have failed to fool him»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Juries and Judges
| Keywords:
engagements, hearing, jury, lied
«Creator: a comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh»
«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»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
Denmark, kingdom, Kingdom of Denmark, suffice, The Kingdom
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