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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000071.txt from 2005/02

From: herb fawcett <herbgosia@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] Quote of the Day
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 22:34:41 -0500

This is bad???
Herb

On 2/22/05 5:17 PM, "Oboeeee@-----.com> wrote:

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> "What are the characters that I discern most clearly in the so-called
> Anglo-Saxon type of man? I may answer at once that two stick out above a=
ll
> others.=20
> One is his curious and apparently incurable incompetence=8Bhis congenital
> inability to do any difficult thing easily and well, whether it be isola=
ting
> a=20
> bacillus or writing a sonata. The other is his astounding susceptibility=
to
> fears and alarms=8Bin short, his hereditary cowardice.... There is no reco=
rd in
> history of any Anglo-Saxon nation entering upon any great war without
> allies."
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> -H.L. (Henry Lewis) Mencken (1880=AD1956) U.S. journalist
> repr. In Prejudices, Fourth Series (1924), =B3The Anglo-Saxon,=B2 Baltimore
> Evening Sun (July 16, 1923)
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