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Consider the questions, “How do you feel about capital punishment?” An appropriate answer might be, “I feel it is completely unjustifiable.” This figure of speech is awkward outside the evaluative domain. We would not ask, “How do you feel
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“A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.”
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“Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.”
― A Little Book In C Major
― A Little Book In C Major
“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
― On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe
― On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe
“Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”
― A Mencken Chrestomathy
― A Mencken Chrestomathy
“The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.”
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