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“The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music.”

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Peter De Vries was a renowned Dutch editor known for his editorial and critical work on literary works. His career spanned various fields, including literature, drama, and broadcasting. more

“A metaphysician is one who, when you remark that twice two makes four, demands to know what you mean by twice, what by two, what by makes, and what by four. For asking such questions metaphysicians are supported in oriental luxury in the universities, and respected as educated and intelligent men.”

Knows Men Mean Two Philosophy Four Demand Intelligent Asking University Educated Luxury Metaphysics Remarks Intelligent Man

Author:H. L. Mencken

“Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.”

Jobs Politics Lost Society Politician Horse Retired Pathetic Studs

Book:Mencken Chrestomathy

Source: Mencken Chrestomathy

“The public, with its mob yearning to be instructed, edified and pulled by the nose, demands certainties; it must be told definitely and a bit raucously that this is true and that is false. But there are no certainties.”

Bits Society Demand Certainty Noses Yearning

Book:H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series

Source: H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series

“Of all forms of visible otherworldliness, it seems to me, the Gothic is at once the most logical and the most beautiful. It reaches up magnificently-and a good half of it is palpably useless.”

Seems Beautiful Form Half Architecture Useless Visible Logical Gothic

Author:H. L. Mencken

“The Americans are the illegitimate children of the English.”

Children America Illegitimate Child

Author:H. L. Mencken

“It takes no more actual sagacity to carry on the everyday hawking and haggling of the world, or to ladle out its normal doses of bad medicine and worse law, than it takes to operate a taxicab or fry a pan of fish.”

World Law Normal Medicine Everyday Fishes Dose Sagacity

Book:In Defense of Women: Human Sexuality

Source: In Defense of Women: Human Sexuality

“The objection to a Communist always resolves itself into the fact that he is not a gentleman.”

Facts Communism Gentleman Resolve Communist Objections

Book:Minority Report

Source: Minority Report

“No man is worthy of unlimited reliance-his treason, at best, only waits for sufficient temptation.”

Men Waiting Corruption Worthy Temptation Sufficient Unlimited Reliance Treason

Book:Mencken Chrestomathy

Source: Mencken Chrestomathy

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