Quotes with puerile

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  • David Herbert Lawrence God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. The average man simply spends his leisure as a dog spends it. His recreations are all puerile, and the time supposed to benefit him really only stupefies him.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The truth is that the average schoolmaster, on all the lower levels, is and always must be essentially and next door to an idiot, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation?
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Mary Wollstonecraft Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety, will obtain for them the protection of man.
    Mary Wollstonecraft
    British feministisch writer (1759 - 1797)
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