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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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HANDKERCHIEF, n. A small square of silk or linen, used in various ignoble offices about the face and especially...
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HOMOEOPATHIST, n. The humorist of the medical profession.Source: The Devil's...
HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and...
IMPUNITY, n. Wealth.Source: The Devil's Dictionary, 1911.-- Ambrose Bierce,...
KILL, v.t. To create a vacancy without nominating a successor.Source: The Devil's...
LODGER, n. A less popular name for the Second Person of that delectable newspaper Trinity, the Roomer, the Bedder, and...
LAZINESS, n. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.Source: The...
LYRE, n. An ancient instrument of torture.Source: The Devil's Dictionary,...
LORE, n. Learning which is not derived from a regular course of instruction but comes of the reading of occult books,...
MAGPIE, n. A bird whose thievish disposition suggested to someone that it might be taught to...
MINISTER, n. An agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility. In diplomacy, an officer sent into a foreign...
They are, as it were, train-bearers in the pageant of life, and hold a glass up to humanity, frailer than itself. We...
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest. More about this quote...
OCCIDENT, n. The world lying west (or east) of the Orient. Largely inhabited by Christians, powerful sub-tribe of the...
PAST, n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a slight and regrettable acquaintance. [T]he...
OCEAN, n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man -- who has no...
PANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language. The least disagreeable form of...
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of that...
When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.Source: Pudd'nhead Wilson, ch. 10,...
When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard...
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