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FUNERAL, n. A...

FUNERAL, n. A...

FUNERAL, n. A pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief...

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IDIOT, n. A...

IDIOT, n. A...

IDIOT, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and...

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IMPENITENCE, n. A...

IMPENITENCE, n. A...

IMPENITENCE, n. A state of mind intermediate in point of time between sin and punishment.

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INTENTION, n. The...

INTENTION, n. The...

INTENTION, n. The mind's sense of the prevalence of one set of influences over another set; an effect whose cause is...

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KNOWLEDGE, n. --...

KNOWLEDGE, n. --...

KNOWLEDGE, n. -- The small body of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Source:...

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LAST, n. A...

LAST, n. A...

LAST, n. A shoemaker's implement, named by a frowning Providence as opportunity to the maker of...

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LEARNING, n. The...

LEARNING, n. The...

LEARNING, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Source: The Devil's...

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LIFE, n. A...

LIFE, n. A...

LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss; yet when lost...

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JOSS-STICKS, n. Small...

JOSS-STICKS, n. Small...

JOSS-STICKS, n. Small sticks burned by the Chinese in their pagan tomfoolery, in imitation of certain sacred rites of...

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LIAR, n. A...

LIAR, n. A...

LIAR, n. A lawyer with a roving commission.

Source: The Devil's Dictionary,...

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MAN, n. An...

MAN, n. An...

MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought...

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Four be the...

Four be the...

Four be the things I'd been better without:
Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.


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Please don't ask...

Please don't ask...

Please don't ask me what the score is, I'm not even sure what the game is.

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To act is...

To act is...

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

Source: In...

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Our duty is...

Our duty is...

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

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The fact that...

The fact that...

The fact that illness is associated with the poor --who are, from the perspective of the privileged, aliens in one's...

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Aristotle: The ultimate value...

Aristotle: The ultimate value...

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness, and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere...

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Aristotle: The soul never...

Aristotle: The soul never...

The soul never thinks without a picture.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Martin Luther King, Jr: From the prodigious...

Martin Luther King, Jr: From the prodigious...

From the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire, let freedom ring. From the mighty mountains of New York, let freedom...

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Martin Luther King, Jr: Success, recognition, and...

Martin Luther King, Jr: Success, recognition, and...

Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the...

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