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«As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.»
«No man can be friendly to another whose personal habits differ materially from his own. Even the trivialities of table manners thus become important. The fact probably explains much of race prejudice, and even more of national prejudice.»
«It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as having those qualities, who spent his whole life appraising and describing the work of other men.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
actual, appraise, appraising, describing, originality, recognized, universally
«I have little belief in human progress. The human race is incurably idiotic. It will never be happy.»
«There are some people who read too much: The bibliobibuli.»
«Clergyman: A ticket speculator outside the gates of Heaven»
«For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Theology
| Keywords:
theologians, unknowable
«Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.»
«No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.»
«Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it»
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