
Dorothy Parker: Complete Broadway, 1918–1923 (2014) https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25758762M/Dorothy_Parker_Complete_Broadway_1918-1923, Chapter 3: 1920
Dorothy Parker: Complete Broadway, 1918–1923 (2014) https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25758762M/Dorothy_Parker_Complete_Broadway_1918-1923, Chapter 3: 1920
Dorothy Parker: Complete Broadway, 1918–1923 (2014) https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25758762M/Dorothy_Parker_Complete_Broadway_1918-1923, Chapter 3: 1920
Letter to Elizabeth Cameron (22 January 1899), in J. C. Levinson et al. eds., The Letters of Henry Adams, Volume IV: 1892–1899 (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1988), p. 670
“That is a good book it seems to me, which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.”
1940s–present, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
“The best plan is, as the common proverb has it, to profit by the folly of others.”
Book XVIII, sec. 31.
Naturalis Historia
“This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit.”
Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Source: A Man of Law's Tale (1952), At the Scottish bar, p. 39