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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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“Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”
― A Mencken Chrestomathy
― A Mencken Chrestomathy
“Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.”
― A Mencken Chrestomathy
― A Mencken Chrestomathy
“A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.”
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“An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup.”
― A Book of Burlesques
― A Book of Burlesques
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