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MONUMENT, n. A...

MONUMENT, n. A...

MONUMENT, n. A structure intended to commemorate something which either needs no commemoration or cannot be...

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MISDEMEANOR, n. An...

MISDEMEANOR, n. An...

MISDEMEANOR, n. An infraction of the law having less dignity than a felony and constituting no claim to admittance...

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NEPOTISM, n. Appointing...

NEPOTISM, n. Appointing...

NEPOTISM, n. Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party.

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ZIGZAG, v.t. To...

ZIGZAG, v.t. To...

ZIGZAG, v.t. To move forward uncertainly, from side to side, as one carrying the white man's burden. (From zed, z, and...

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ORTHODOX, n. An...

ORTHODOX, n. An...

ORTHODOX, n. An ox wearing the popular religious joke.

Source: The Devil's...

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SATIRE, n. An...

SATIRE, n. An...

SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were...

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Martin Luther King, Jr: Philanthropy is commendable,...

Martin Luther King, Jr: Philanthropy is commendable,...

Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic...

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William James: Genius means little...

William James: Genius means little...

Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

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Aristotle: To the query,...

Aristotle: To the query,...

To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

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Francis Bacon: There is a...

Francis Bacon: There is a...

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that...

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The love of...

The love of...

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

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This mournful truth...

This mournful truth...

This mournful truth is ev'rywhere confessed,
Slow rises worth by poverty depressed.


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There are charms...

There are charms...

There are charms made only for distant admiration.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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We are inclined...

We are inclined...

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

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Why Sir, it...

Why Sir, it...

Why Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. We all know what light is; but it is not easy to tell what it...

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Without economy none...

Without economy none...

Without economy none can be rich, and with it few will be poor.

Source:
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Just praise is...

Just praise is...

Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.

Source: Rambler, no. 155...

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Silence propagates itself,...

Silence propagates itself,...

Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to...

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Fred Allen: Washington is no...

Fred Allen: Washington is no...

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

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Ogden Nash: The only people...

Ogden Nash: The only people...

The only people who should really sin
Are the people who can sin with a grin.


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