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«The proof of an idea is not to be sought in the soundness of the man fathering it, but in the soundness of the idea itself. One asks of a pudding, not if the cook who offers it is a good woman, but if the pudding itself is good.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
cook, fathering, pudding, puddings, soundness, The Cook
«A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.»
«A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Age,
Poetry
| Keywords:
overgrown, thirty, Thirty Years
«A great nation is any mob of people which produces at least one honest man a century»
«Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
afterward, Her husband, marries, month, strike
«The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth--that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usu»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
World
| Keywords:
assumption, cured, Discovery of, exposure, identical, The Discovery
«The older I get the more I admire and crave competence, just simple competence, in any field from adultery to zoology.»
«It is not the drinker, but the man who has just stopped drinking, who thinks the world is going to the dogs»
«Philosophy first constructs a scheme of happiness and then tries to fit the world to it»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
constructing, constructs, fit, scheme, scheming, tries
«Lawyer: One who protects us from robbers by taking away the temptation»
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