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Charles Dickens: I have known...

Charles Dickens: I have known...

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that...

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Aristotle: A man is...

Aristotle: A man is...

A man is the origin of his action.

Source: In Shorter Bartlett's Familiar...

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Aristotle: We must no...

Aristotle: We must no...

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are...

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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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Saint Augustine: God had one...

Saint Augustine: God had one...

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Source: In...

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Peace Pilgrim: No one can...

Peace Pilgrim: No one can...

No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human...

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PLEASURE, n. The...

PLEASURE, n. The...

PLEASURE, n. The least hateful form of dejection.

Source: The Devil's Dictionary,...

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PIG, n. An...

PIG, n. An...

PIG, n. An animal (Porcus omnivorus) closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite,...

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PLATITUDE, n. The...

PLATITUDE, n. The...

PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A thought that snores in words that...

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PREHISTORIC, adj. Belonging...

PREHISTORIC, adj. Belonging...

PREHISTORIC, adj. Belonging to an early period and a museum. Antedating the art and practice of perpetuating...

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PROPERTY, n. Any...

PROPERTY, n. Any...

PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever...

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PREDESTINATION, n. The...

PREDESTINATION, n. The...

PREDESTINATION, n. The doctrine that all things occur according to programme. . . . not be confused with that of...

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PREDILECTION, n. The...

PREDILECTION, n. The...

PREDILECTION, n. The preparatory stage of disillusion.

Source: The Devil's...

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RADICALISM, n. The...

RADICALISM, n. The...

RADICALISM, n. The conservatism of to-morrow injected into the affairs of to-day.

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PREJUDICE, n. A...

PREJUDICE, n. A...

PREJUDICE, n. A vagrant opinion without visible means of support.

Source: The...

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REDUNDANT, adj. Superfluous;...

REDUNDANT, adj. Superfluous;...

REDUNDANT, adj. Superfluous; needless; de trop.

Source: The Devil's Dictionary,...

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SLANG, n. The...

SLANG, n. The...

SLANG, n. The speech of one who utters with his tongue what he thinks with his ear, and feels the pride of a creator...

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TABLE D'HOTE, n....

TABLE D'HOTE, n....

TABLE D'HOTE, n. A caterer's thrifty concession to the universal passion for...

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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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TRUCE, n. Friendship....

TRUCE, n. Friendship....

TRUCE, n. Friendship.

Source: The Devil's Dictionary, 1911.
-- Ambrose Bierce,...

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