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Letter "H" » Henry Louis Mencken Quotes
«Good government is that which delivers the citizen from the risk of being done out of his life and property too arbitrarily and violently - one that relieves him sufficiently from the barbaric business of guarding them to enable him to engage in gent»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
arbitrarily, barbaric, delivers, Gent, gents, guarding, relieves
«Explanations exist; they have existed for all times, for there is always an easy solution to every human problem - neat, plausible, and wrong»
«At the moment of the contemporary metaphysician's loftiest flight, when he is most gratefully warmed by the feeling that he is far above all the ordinary airlanes and has an absolutely novel concept by the tail, he is suddenly pulled up by the discov»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
contemporary, gratefully, pulled, The Contemporary, warmed
«No normal man ever fell in love after 30 when the kidneys begin to disintegrate.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
disintegrate, disintegrates, disintegrating, kidneys
«Criticism is prejudice made plausible.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Criticism,
Prejudice
| Keywords:
plausible
«One yearns unspeakably for a composer who gives out his pair of honest themes, and then develops them unashamed, and then hangs a brisk coda to them, and then shuts up»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
brisk, coda, hangs, unashamed, unspeakably
«We are apt to forget that a great man is thus not only great, but also a man: that a philosopher, in a life time, spends less hours pondering the destiny of the race than he gives over to wondering if it will rain tomorrow and to meditating upon the»
«I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.»
«The truth is that the average schoolmaster, on all the lower levels, is and always must be essentially and next door to an idiot, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation?»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
avocation, levels, low-level, puerile, schoolmaster
«Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.»
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