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«By an inferior man I mean one who knows nothing that is not known to every adult, who can do nothing that could not be learned by anyone in a few weeks, and who meanly admires mean things»
«No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.»
«During the majority of his waking hours he is in close association with his pupils, who are admittedly his inferiors, and so he rapidly acquires the familiar, self-satisfied professorial attitude of mind»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
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acquires, admittedly, association, familiar, inferiors, professorial, pupils, rapidly, self-satisfied, waking
«I am not only wrong, it appears, I am also immoral - the familiar step in Puritan logic»
«I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
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detest, lecture, lectures, shy, speaker
«The central difficulty lies in the fact that all of the sciences have made such great progress during the last century that they have got quite beyond the reach of man»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
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Science
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have got, last century
«Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest»
«Great artists are modest almost as seldom as they are faithful to their wives»
«The wholly manly man lacks the wit necessary to give objective form to his soaring and secret dreams, and the wholly womanly woman is apt to be too cynical a creature to dream at all»
«The idea that (school-children) are happy is of a piece with the idea that the lobster in the pot is happy»
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