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To keep your...

To keep your...

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

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Where secrecy or...

Where secrecy or...

Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.

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To do nothing...

To do nothing...

To do nothing is in every man's power.

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

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You will hear...

You will hear...

You will hear more good things on the outside of a stagecoach from London to Oxford than if you were to pass a...

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HOUSE, n. A...

HOUSE, n. A...

HOUSE, n. A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beelte, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea,...

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INGRATE, n. One...

INGRATE, n. One...

INGRATE, n. One who receives a benefit from another, or is otherwise an object of charity.

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K, n....

K, n....

K, n. A consonant; originally precisely that of our H, but altered to its present shape to commemorate the...

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LECTURER, n. One...

LECTURER, n. One...

LECTURER, n. One with his hand in your pocket, his tongue in your ear and his faith in your...

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LIMB, n. The...

LIMB, n. The...

LIMB, n. The branch of a tree or the leg of an American woman.

Source: The Devil's...

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MAGNET, n. Something...

MAGNET, n. Something...

MAGNET, n. Something acted upon by magnetism.

Source: The Devil's Dictionary,...

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MAIDEN, n. A...

MAIDEN, n. A...

MAIDEN, n. A young person of the unfair sex. The maiden is not altogether unpleasing to the eye, nor (without her...

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LUNARIAN, n. An...

LUNARIAN, n. An...

LUNARIAN, n. An inhabitant of the moon, as distinguished from Lunatic, one whom the moon...

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MAMMALIA, n.pl. A...

MAMMALIA, n.pl. A...

MAMMALIA, n.pl. A family of vertebrate animals whose females in a state of nature suckle their young, but when...

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LOSS, n. Privation...

LOSS, n. Privation...

LOSS, n. Privation of that which we had, or had not. Thus, in the latter sense, it is said of a defeated candidate...

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MERCHANT, n. One...

MERCHANT, n. One...

MERCHANT, n. One engaged in a commercial pursuit. A commercial pursuit is one in which the thing pursued is a...

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MALTHUSIAN, adj. Pertaining...

MALTHUSIAN, adj. Pertaining...

MALTHUSIAN, adj. Pertaining to Malthus and his doctrines, who believed in artificially limiting population, but found...

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OBSOLETE, adj. No...

OBSOLETE, adj. No...

OBSOLETE, adj. No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words. A word which some lexicographer has marked...

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PHRENOLOGY, n. The...

PHRENOLOGY, n. The...

PHRENOLOGY, n. The science of picking the pocket through the scalp. It consists in locating and exploiting the organ...

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PERSEVERANCE, n. A...

PERSEVERANCE, n. A...

PERSEVERANCE, n. A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

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PICTURE, n. A...

PICTURE, n. A...

PICTURE, n. A representation in two dimensions of something wearisome in three.

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