Henry Louis Mencken: Frases em inglês
Frases em inglês.“Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.”
1940s–present, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
Fonte: A Mencken Chrestomathy
“Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got used to it.”
1910s
Fonte: A Little Book in C Major (1916)
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1940s–present, Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)
Fonte: Minority Report
The portion after the second semicolon is widely paraphrased or misquoted. Two examples are "For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong" and "There is always an easy solution to every human problem -- neat, plausible, and wrong."
1910s
Fonte: "The Divine Afflatus" in New York Evening Mail (16 November 1917); later published in Prejudices: Second Series (1920) and A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
"A Few Pages of Notes," http://books.google.com/books?id=hXVHAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Democracy+is+the+theory+that+the+common+people+know+what+they+want+and+deserve+to+get+it+good+and+hard%22&pg=PA435#v=onepage The Smart Set (January 1915); later published in A Little Book in C major http://books.google.com/books?id=EAJbAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Democracy+is+the+theory+that+the+common+people+know+what+they+want+and+deserve+to+get+it+good+and+hard%22&pg=PA19#v=onepage (1916), and A Mencken Crestomathy (1949) <br class="br">1910s <br class="br">Fonte: A Little Book in C Major
“Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.”
Fonte: 1920s, Prejudices, Third Series (1922), Ch. 14 "Types of Men" - 3 : The Believer
Fonte: Prejudices: Third Series
“We are here and it is now: further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.”
1940s–present, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
Fonte: A Mencken Chrestomathy
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1940s–present, Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)
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1940s–present, Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)
Fonte: Minority Report
“Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.”
1940s–present, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
“Misogynist — A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.”
1940s–present, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
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1940s–present, Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)
Fonte: Minority Report