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ELEGY, n. A...

ELEGY, n. A...

ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce...

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FASHION, n. A...

FASHION, n. A...

FASHION, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.

Source: The Devil's...

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HOMICIDE, n. The...

HOMICIDE, n. The...

HOMICIDE, n. The slaying of one human being by another. There are four kinds of homocide: felonious, excusable,...

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INFALAPSARIAN, n. One...

INFALAPSARIAN, n. One...

INFALAPSARIAN, n. One who ventures to believe that Adam need not have sinned unless he had a mind to -- in opposition...

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MAGPIE, n. A...

MAGPIE, n. A...

MAGPIE, n. A bird whose thievish disposition suggested to someone that it might be taught to...

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MANICHEISM, n. The...

MANICHEISM, n. The...

MANICHEISM, n. The ancient Persian doctrine of an incessant warfare between Good and Evil. When Good gave up the fight...

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LITIGATION, n. A...

LITIGATION, n. A...

LITIGATION, n. A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

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A child cannot...

A child cannot...

A child cannot be taught by someone who despises him.

Source: In Famous Black...

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No one can...

No one can...

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only...

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PRE-ADAMITE, n. One...

PRE-ADAMITE, n. One...

PRE-ADAMITE, n. One of an experimental and apparently unsatisfactory race of antedated Creation . . . . Little its...

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Nothing is more...

Nothing is more...

Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the manner in which he behaves toward fools.

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It is by...

It is by...

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that...

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It is great...

It is great...

It is great to shake off the trammels of the world and of public opinion . . . and become the creature of the moment ....

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Jews and homosexuals...

Jews and homosexuals...

Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the...

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Lying is an...

Lying is an...

Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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With more people,...

With more people,...

With more people, there are more voices to tune out.

Source: In Webster's...

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Andrea Dworkin: Childbearing is glorified...

Andrea Dworkin: Childbearing is glorified...

Childbearing is glorified in part because women die from it.

Source: Pornography,...

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Francis Bacon: Cato said the...

Francis Bacon: Cato said the...

Cato said the best way to keep good acts in memory was to refresh them with new.

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Francis Bacon: Time is the...

Francis Bacon: Time is the...

Time is the measure of business.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed....

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Francis Bacon: Champagne for my...

Francis Bacon: Champagne for my...

Champagne for my sham friends; real pain for my real friends.

Source: In Webster's...

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