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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.Source: The Devil's Dictionary, 1911.-- Ambrose Bierce,...
KILT, n. A costume sometimes worn by Scotchmen in America and Americans in Scotland. More about this quote...
INSCRIPTION, n. Something written on another thing -- mostly memorial, intended to commemorate the fame of some...
K, n. A consonant; originally precisely that of our H, but altered to its present shape to commemorate the...
MAGNET, n. Something acted upon by magnetism.Source: The Devil's Dictionary,...
LYRE, n. An ancient instrument of torture.Source: The Devil's Dictionary,...
MANNA, n. A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness. When it was no longer supplied to them they...
We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.Source: 'On Criticism'-- William...
When a person dies who does any one thing better than anyone else in the world, which so many others are trying to do...
You will hear more good things on the outside of a stagecoach from London to Oxford than if you were to pass a...
ZIGZAG, v.t. To move forward uncertainly, from side to side, as one carrying the white man's burden. (From zed, z, and...
Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favourable to virtue. . . . Remember that the solitary mortal is...
Prepare for death, if here at night you roam,And sign your will before you sup from...
Surely life, if it be not long, is tedious, since we are forced to call in the assistance of so many trifles to rid us...
The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.Source: In Webster's...
The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of...
This man I thought had been a Lord among wits; but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords. More about this quote...
Worth seeing? yes; but not worth going to see.Source: Referring to the Giant's...
It is no matter what you teach them first, any more than what leg you shall put into your breeches...
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