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MONEY, n. A...

MONEY, n. A...

MONEY, n. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it. An evidence of culture and a...

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MENDACIOUS, adj. Addicted...

MENDACIOUS, adj. Addicted...

MENDACIOUS, adj. Addicted to rhetoric.

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

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NOMINEE, n. A...

NOMINEE, n. A...

NOMINEE, n. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable...

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MILLENNIUM, n. The...

MILLENNIUM, n. The...

MILLENNIUM, n. The period of a thousand years when the lid is to be screwed down, with all reformers on the under...

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MINOR, adj. Less...

MINOR, adj. Less...

MINOR, adj. Less objectionable.

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

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OPIATE, n. An...

OPIATE, n. An...

OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard.

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Wit is the...

Wit is the...

Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.

Source: In...

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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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OWE, v. To...

OWE, v. To...

OWE, v. To have (and to hold) a debt. The word formerly signified not indebtedness, but possession; it meant own, and...

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PHOTOGRAPH, n. A...

PHOTOGRAPH, n. A...

PHOTOGRAPH, n. A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. It is a little better than the work of an...

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QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly...

QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly...

QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty and excellence of this incomparable...

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PRESENTABLE, adj. Hideously...

PRESENTABLE, adj. Hideously...

PRESENTABLE, adj. Hideously appareled after the manner of the time and place.

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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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RITUALISM, n. A...

RITUALISM, n. A...

RITUALISM, n. A Dutch Garden of God where He may walk in rectilinear freedom, keeping off the...

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To a poet...

To a poet...

To a poet nothing can be useless.

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

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Truth, Sir, is...

Truth, Sir, is...

Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the...

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They teach the...

They teach the...

They teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master.

Source:...

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To be idle...

To be idle...

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavours with his utmost care to hide...

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There is no...

There is no...

There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of...

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Where there is...

Where there is...

Where there is no hope there can be no endeavor.

Source: The Rambler
-- Samuel...

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