There is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong.

H.L. Mencken

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Solving problems

Author

H.L. Mencken

Source

The Divine Afflatus New York Evening Mail

Medium

Essay Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1917 1910s 20th century

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Writer

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United States

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Citation

Mencken, Henry Louis. "The Divine Afflatus." H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: The First, Second, and Third Series, edited by Marion Rodgers. Library of America, 2010. Originally published by New York Evening Mail, 16 Nov. 1917.

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Medium
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Freud, Sigmund. Einführung in die Psychoanalyse [Introduction to Psychoanalysis]. 1915-1917, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, lecture 1. Lecture series.

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Freud, Sigmund. Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis. W. W. Norton & Company, 1977, lecture 1.