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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Upon the middle...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Upon the middle...

Upon the middle of the night.
Waking she heard the night-fowl crow.


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Oscar Wilde: Mere colour, unspoiled...

Oscar Wilde: Mere colour, unspoiled...

Mere colour, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different...

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Oscar Wilde: There are moments...

Oscar Wilde: There are moments...

There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.

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Oscar Wilde: The final mystery...

Oscar Wilde: The final mystery...

The final mystery is oneself.

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

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There are few...

There are few...

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

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This mournful truth...

This mournful truth...

This mournful truth is ev'rywhere confessed,
Slow rises worth by poverty depressed.


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The true art...

The true art...

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Whoever thinks of...

Whoever thinks of...

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.

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PATIENCE, n. A...

PATIENCE, n. A...

PATIENCE, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.

Source: The Devil's...

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PHILANTHROPIST, n. A...

PHILANTHROPIST, n. A...

PHILANTHROPIST, n. A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is...

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PHOENIX, n. The...

PHOENIX, n. The...

PHOENIX, n. The classical prototype of the modern small hot bird.

Source: The...

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POLITICIAN, n. An...

POLITICIAN, n. An...

POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he...

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POVERTY, n. A...

POVERTY, n. A...

POVERTY, n. A file provided for the teeth of the rats of reform. Its victims are distinguished by possession of all...

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REASON, n. Propensitate...

REASON, n. Propensitate...

REASON, n. Propensitate of prejudice.

Source: The Devil's Dictionary, 1911.
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REASON, v.i. To...

REASON, v.i. To...

REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.

Source: The Devil's...

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RACK, n. An...

RACK, n. An...

RACK, n. An argumentative implement formerly much used in persuading devotees of a false faith to embrace the living...

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QUEEN, n. A...

QUEEN, n. A...

QUEEN, n. A woman by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king, and through whom it is ruled when there is...

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REDRESS, n. Reparation...

REDRESS, n. Reparation...

REDRESS, n. Reparation without satisfaction.

Source: The Devil's Dictionary,...

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PRESENT, n. That...

PRESENT, n. That...

PRESENT, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of...

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PRESIDENCY, n. The...

PRESIDENCY, n. The...

PRESIDENCY, n. The greased pig in the field game of American politics.

Source: The...

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