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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Are God and...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Are God and...

Are God and Nature then at strife
That Nature lends such evil dreams?
So careful of the type she seems,
So...

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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 be always...

To be always...

To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.

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FOREFINGER, n. The...

FOREFINGER, n. The...

FOREFINGER, n. The finger commonly used in pointing out two malefactors.

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FELON, n. A...

FELON, n. A...

FELON, n. A person of greater enterprise than discretion, who in embracing an opportunity has formed an unfortunate...

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IMPALE, v.t. In...

IMPALE, v.t. In...

IMPALE, v.t. In popular usage, to pierce with any weapon which remains fixed in the wound . . . . properly, to put to...

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LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A...

LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A...

LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some particular stage in the development of...

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PHILISTINE, n. One...

PHILISTINE, n. One...

PHILISTINE, n. One whose mind is the creature of its environment, following the fashion in thought, feeling and...

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PROJECTILE, n. The...

PROJECTILE, n. The...

PROJECTILE, n. The final arbiter in international disputes. With the growth of prudence in military affairs the...

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Men have a...

Men have a...

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later, for another thing, they die...

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It is better...

It is better...

It is better that some should be unhappy than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of...

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It is wonderful...

It is wonderful...

It is wonderful to think how men of very large estates not only spend their yearly income, but are often actually in...

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I will be...

I will be...

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Source: Quoted in: James Boswell, Life...

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Men hate more...

Men hate more...

Men hate more steadily than they love.

Source: Quoted in: Boswell's Life of Samuel...

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No man was...

No man was...

No man was ever great by imitation.

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

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No man is...

No man is...

No man is much regarded by the rest of the world. He that considers how little he dwells upon the condition of others,...

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Sir, I look...

Sir, I look...

Sir, I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

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No girl who...

No girl who...

No girl who is going to marry need bother to win a college degree; she just naturally becomes a Master of Arts and a...

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Sir, your wife,...

Sir, your wife,...

Sir, your wife, under pretence of keeping a bawdy-house, is a receiver of stolen goods.

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Sir, a man...

Sir, a man...

Sir, a man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat, will not find his way thither the sooner in a grey...

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