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“In brief, she assumed that, being a man, I was vain to the point of imbecility, and this assumption was correct, as it always is”
Henry Louis Mencken quotes (American humorous Journalist and Critic of American life who influenced US fiction through the 1920s, 1880-1956)
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“If x is the population of the United States and y is the degree of imbecility of the average American, then democracy is the theory that x X y is less than y”
Henry Louis Mencken quotes (American humorous Journalist and Critic of American life who influenced US fiction through the 1920s, 1880-1956)
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“That it should still be necessary, at this late stage in the senility of the human race to argue that women have a fine and fluent intelligence is surely an eloquent proof of the defective observation, incurable prejudice, and general imbecility of t”
Henry Louis Mencken quotes (American humorous Journalist and Critic of American life who influenced US fiction through the 1920s, 1880-1956)

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“The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.”
Tristan Tzara quotes (Romanian born French Poet, Essayist and Founder of the nihilistic movement in the arts, Dada. 1896-1963)

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“An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight”
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“Of all cursed places under the sun, where the hungriest soul can hardly pick up a few grains of knowledge, a girls boarding-school is the worst. They are called finishing schools, and the name tells accurately what they are. They finish everything but imbecility and weakness, and that they cultivate. They are nicely adapted machines for experimenting on the question, ''Into how little space a human being can be crushed?'' I have seen some souls so compressed that they would have fitted into a small thimble, and found room to move there -- wide room. A woman who has been for many years at one of those places carries the mark of the beast on her till she dies.”
Olive Schreiner quotes (South African Writer, 1855-1920)

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“The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power”
Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes (American Poet, Lecturer and Essayist, 1803-1882)

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“The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.”
John Arbuthnot Fisher quotes
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“The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is -- Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity, custom, and fear.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes (American Poet, Lecturer and Essayist, 1803-1882)

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“IMBECILITY, n. A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious critics of this dictionary.”
Ambrose Bierce quotes (American Writer, Journalist and Editor, 1842-1914) Book: Devil's Dictionary quotes

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