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NIRVANA, n. In the Buddhist religion, a state of pleasurable annihilation awarded to the wise, particularly to those...
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Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant...
Please don't ask me what the score is, I'm not even sure what the game is.Source:...
We are all of us, more or less, the slaves of opinion.Source: In More about this quote...
There are 2 sorts of pride: one in which we approve others, the other in which we cannot accept...
PALM, n. A species of tree . . . of which the familiar itching palm (Palma hominis) is most widely distributed . . . ....
PANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language. The least disagreeable form of...
ORTHOGRAPHY, n. The science of spelling by the eye instead of the ear.Source: The...
TELESCOPE, n. A device having a relation to the eye similar to that of the telephone to the ear, enabling distant...
SAUCE, n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices;...
Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great...
Sir, a man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat, will not find his way thither the sooner in a grey...
The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered but a general effect of pleasing...
There mark what ills the scholar's life assailToil, envy, want, the patron, and the...
The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to...
Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale.Source: Letter, 24...
Why, Sir, most schemes of political improvement are very laughable things.Source:...
It is better that some should be unhappy than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of...
It is wonderful to think how men of very large estates not only spend their yearly income, but are often actually in...
It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.Source: In...
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