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ADAGE, n. Boned...

ADAGE, n. Boned...

ADAGE, n. Boned wisdom for weak teeth.

Source: The Devil's Dictionary, 1911.
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BEG, v. To...

BEG, v. To...

BEG, v. To ask for something with an earnestness proportioned to the belief that it will not be...

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CABBAGE, n. A...

CABBAGE, n. A...

CABBAGE, n. A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

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CLERGYMAN, n. A...

CLERGYMAN, n. A...

CLERGYMAN, n. A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of better his temporal...

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CONGRESS, n. A...

CONGRESS, n. A...

CONGRESS, n. A body of men who meet to repeal laws.

Source: The Devil's Dictionary,...

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DEGRADATION, n. One...

DEGRADATION, n. One...

DEGRADATION, n. One of the stages of moral and social progress from private station to political...

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CONVERSATION, n. A...

CONVERSATION, n. A...

CONVERSATION, n. A fair to the display of the minor mental commodities, each exhibitor being too intent upon the...

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The New is...

The New is...

The New is not a fashion, it is a value.

Source: The Pleasure of the Text, Modern ...

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In life, as...

In life, as...

In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.

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The key to...

The key to...

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it...

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Jimmy Johnson: When you have...

Jimmy Johnson: When you have...

When you have success, there is glory for all. With success and glory come great feelings for one another and...

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Carlos Fuentes: What the United...

Carlos Fuentes: What the United...

What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand...

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Jean Genet: To achieve harmony...

Jean Genet: To achieve harmony...

To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.

Source: The Thief's...

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Agatha Christie: We owe most...

Agatha Christie: We owe most...

We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness-either enforced or...

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Henry Miller: The world itself...

Henry Miller: The world itself...

The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of...

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Henry Fielding: Every physician almost...

Henry Fielding: Every physician almost...

Every physician almost hath his favorite disease.

Source: Tom Jones, bk. 2, ch. 9,...

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Knut Hamsun: In old age...

Knut Hamsun: In old age...

In old age . . . we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have...

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Djuna Barnes: The priceless galaxy...

Djuna Barnes: The priceless galaxy...

The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind . . .

Source: In Webster's...

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Djuna Barnes: We are beginning...

Djuna Barnes: We are beginning...

We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: The growth of...

Friedrich Nietzsche: The growth of...

The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

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