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In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.

According to Frederic Prokosch, in his Voices: A Memoir - 1983, this was said to him by Housman.


Most men are rather stupid, and most of those who are not stupid are, consequently, rather vain.

"The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism", a lecture delivered on August 4, 1921


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