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Jean Anouilh: One cannot weep...

Jean Anouilh: One cannot weep...

One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.

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James Matthew Barrie: Life is a...

James Matthew Barrie: Life is a...

Life is a long lesson in humility.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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The world is...

The world is...

The world is but a school of research. The question is not who shall hit the ring, but who shall run the best...

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Some folks make...

Some folks make...

Some folks make you feel at home. Others make you wish you were.

Source: In...

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In today's highly...

In today's highly...

In today's highly complex society it takes years of training in rationalization, accommodation and compromise to...

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ALDERMAN, n. An...

ALDERMAN, n. An...

ALDERMAN, n. An ingenious criminal who covers his secret thieving with a pretence of open...

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Without passion man...

Without passion man...

Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock from the iron before...

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RECREATION, n. A...

RECREATION, n. A...

RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue.

Source:...

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RENOWN, n. A...

RENOWN, n. A...

RENOWN, n. A degree of distinction between notoriety and fame -- a little more supportable than the one and a little...

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RESPONSIBILITY, n. A...

RESPONSIBILITY, n. A...

RESPONSIBILITY, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor....

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It's not easy...

It's not easy...

It's not easy taking my problems one at a time when they refuse to get in line.

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To be remembered...

To be remembered...

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are...

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Literature is my...

Literature is my...

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious...

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DRAMATIST, n. One...

DRAMATIST, n. One...

DRAMATIST, n. One who adapts plays from the French.

Source: The Devil's Dictionary,...

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DRAGOON, n. A...

DRAGOON, n. A...

DRAGOON, n. A soldier who combines dash and steadiness in so equal measure that he makes his advances on foot and his...

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DEPENDENT, adj. Reliant...

DEPENDENT, adj. Reliant...

DEPENDENT, adj. Reliant upon another's generosity for the support which you are not in a position to exact from his...

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DISABUSE, v.t. To...

DISABUSE, v.t. To...

DISABUSE, v.t. To present your neighbor with another and better error than the one which he has deemed advantageous to...

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FORGETFULNESS, n. A...

FORGETFULNESS, n. A...

FORGETFULNESS, n. A gift of God bestowed upon doctors in compensation for their destitution of...

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ILLUMINATI, n. A...

ILLUMINATI, n. A...

ILLUMINATI, n. A sect of Spanish heretics of the latter part of the sixteenth century; so called because they were...

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IMPROVIDENCE, n. Provision...

IMPROVIDENCE, n. Provision...

IMPROVIDENCE, n. Provision for the needs of to-day from the revenues of to-morrow.

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