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«The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
comfortable, estate, estates, spirits, widowhood
«The ideal state for a philosopher, indeed, is celibacy tempered by polygamy»
«The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it»
«No one in this world, so far as I know has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
Great Plains, Plain People, underestimating
«He marries best who puts it off until it is too late»
«Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.»
«I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.»
«I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.»
«All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them.»
«Archbishop: A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
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archbishop, Archbishop of, ecclesiastic, ecclesiastics
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