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«After all, the world is not our handiwork, and we are not responsible for what goes on in it, save within very narrow limits»
«The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading»
«The practical politician, as every connoisseur of ochlocracy knows, is not a man who seeks to inoculate the innumerable caravan of voters with new ideas; he is a man who seeks to search out and prick into energy the basic ideas that are already in th»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
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Politicians
| Keywords:
caravan, connoisseur, connoisseurs, innumerable, inoculate, inoculated, inoculating, prick, The Connoisseur
«There is a bird that knows no closed season - and if he won't come down to Texas oil stock, or one-night cancer cures, or building lots in Swampshurst, he will always come down to Inspiration and Optimism, whether political, theological, pedagogical,»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
Cancer, cures, pedagogical, theological
«There is no record in history of a nation that ever gained anything valuable by being unable to defend itself»
«When women kiss it always reminds me of prizefighters shaking hands»
«The thing which sets off the American from all other men, and gives peculiar color not only to the pattern of his daily life but also adds to the play of his inner ideas, is what, for want of a more exact term, may be called social aspiration»
«He uses his sources as a drunkard uses lampposts; not to light him upon his way, but to dissimulate his instability»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
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dissimulate, drunkard, instability, lamppost, lampposts
«The value the world sets upon motives is often grossly unjust and inaccurate»
«And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.»
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