This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken
The New Logic ? it would be nice if it worked. Ergo, it will work.
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Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.
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H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken
The older I get the more I admire and crave competence, just simple competence, in any field from adultery to zoology.
Action alone is the exclusive prerogative of man; neither a beast nor a god is capable of it, and only action is entirely dependent upon the constant presence of others.
The concept of congruence in Euclidean geometry is not exactly the same as that in non-Euclidean geometry... "Congruent" means in Euclidean geometry the same as "determining parallelism," a meaning which it does not have in non-Euclidean geometry.
Poverty wants many things, and avarice all.
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The priest's friend loses his faith, the doctor's his health, and the lawyer's his fortune.
J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
And so they stood on the walls of the City of Gondor, and a great wind rose and blew, and their hair, raven and golden, streamed out mingling in the air.
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There are men whose stomachs are the clamorous creditors that sooner or later throw them into bankruptcy.
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J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a far green country under a swift sunrise.
J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
Ask not the elves for advice, because they will tell you both 'yes' and 'no'.
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