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LEARNING, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.Source: The Devil's...
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LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.Source: The Devil's Dictionary,...
LINEN, n. A kind of cloth the making of which, when made of hemp, entails a great waste of hemp. -- Calcraft the...
MEEKNESS, n. Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.Source:...
ME, pro. The objectionable case of I. The personal pronoun in English has three cases, the dominative, the...
MUSTANG, n. An indocile horse of the western plains. In English society, the American wife of an English...
MUGWUMP, n. In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice of independence. A term of...
NONSENSE, n. The objections that are urged against this excellent dictionary. More about this quote...
MUMMY, n. An ancient Egyptian . . . handy, too, in museums in gratifying the vulgar curiosity that serves to...
MONOSYLLABIC, adj. Composed of words of one syllable . . . Commonly Saxon -- that is to say, words of a barbarous...
Well, I've had a happy life.Source: Last words, quoted in W. C. Hazlitt, Memoirs...
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest. More about this quote...
We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.Source:...
OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their...
OWE, v. To have (and to hold) a debt. The word formerly signified not indebtedness, but possession; it meant own, and...
OCEAN, n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man -- who has no...
PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or...
PENITENT, adj. Undergoing or awaiting punishment.Source: The Devil's Dictionary,...
PATRIOT, n. One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the whole. The dupe of statesmen and the...
PHILANTHROPIST, n. A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is...
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