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POTABLE, n. Suitable...

POTABLE, n. Suitable...

POTABLE, n. Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be potable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although...

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REASONABLE, adj. Accessible...

REASONABLE, adj. Accessible...

REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and...

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RECOLLECT, v. To...

RECOLLECT, v. To...

RECOLLECT, v. To recall with additions something not previously known.

Source: The...

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QUOTATION, n. The...

QUOTATION, n. The...

QUOTATION, n. The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. The words erroneously...

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RASH, adj. Insensible...

RASH, adj. Insensible...

RASH, adj. Insensible to the value of our advice.

Source: The Devil's Dictionary,...

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REAR, n. In...

REAR, n. In...

REAR, n. In American military matters, that exposed part of the army that is nearest to...

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REPRESENTATIVE, n. In...

REPRESENTATIVE, n. In...

REPRESENTATIVE, n. In national politics, a member of the Lower House in this world, and without discernible hope of...

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RUSSIAN, n. A...

RUSSIAN, n. A...

RUSSIAN, n. A person with a Caucasian body and a Mongolian soul. A Tartar Emetic.

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REVELATION, n. A...

REVELATION, n. A...

REVELATION, n. A famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the...

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SARCOPHAGUS, n. Among...

SARCOPHAGUS, n. Among...

SARCOPHAGUS, n. Among the Greeks a coffin which being made of a certain kind of carnivorous stone, had the peculiar...

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UNITARIAN, n. One...

UNITARIAN, n. One...

UNITARIAN, n. One who denies the divinity of a Trinitarian.

Source: The Devil's...

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SYLLOGISM, n. A...

SYLLOGISM, n. A...

SYLLOGISM, n. A logical formula consisting of a major and a minor assumption and an inconsequent. (See...

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VOTE, n. The...

VOTE, n. The...

VOTE, n. The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his...

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ULTIMATUM, n. In...

ULTIMATUM, n. In...

ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.

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OMEN, n. A...

OMEN, n. A...

OMEN, n. A sign that something will happen if nothing happens.

Source: The Devil's...

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Martin Luther King, Jr: We may have...

Martin Luther King, Jr: We may have...

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.

Source: In...

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Martin Luther King, Jr: Our forebears labored...

Martin Luther King, Jr: Our forebears labored...

Our forebears labored without wages. They made cotton king. And yet out of a bottomless vitality, they continued to...

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Francis Bacon: Who questions much,...

Francis Bacon: Who questions much,...

Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Francis Bacon: If money be...

Francis Bacon: If money be...

If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as...

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Francis Bacon: Books must follow...

Francis Bacon: Books must follow...

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.

Source: Proposition touching...

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