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Letter "I" » imbecility
«The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.»
«The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.»
Author: Tristan Tzara
(Essayist, Founder, Poet)
| Keywords:
dossier, guidance, imbecility, professors
«An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight»
«IMBECILITY, n. A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious critics of this dictionary.»
«If x is the population of the United States and y is the degree of imbecility of the average American, then democracy is the theory that x X y is less than y»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
American state, imbecility, population, the United States, United States
«In brief, she assumed that, being a man, I was vain to the point of imbecility, and this assumption was correct, as it always is»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Men
| Keywords:
assumed, assumption, brief, correct, imbecility, in brief, the point, to the point, vain
«That it should still be necessary, at this late stage in the senility of the human race to argue that women have a fine and fluent intelligence is surely an eloquent proof of the defective observation, incurable prejudice, and general imbecility of t»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
defective, defectives, eloquent, fluent, imbecility, incurable, senility
«The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power»
«The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is -- Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity, custom, and fear.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
all ages, eminent, gravity, imbecility
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