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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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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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RETRIBUTION, n. A...

RETRIBUTION, n. A...

RETRIBUTION, n. A rain of fire-and-brimstone that falls alike upon the just and such of the unjust as have not...

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RESIGN, v.t. To...

RESIGN, v.t. To...

RESIGN, v.t. To renounce an honor for an advantage. To renounce an advantage for a greater...

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KINDNESS, n. A...

KINDNESS, n. A...

KINDNESS, n. A brief preface to ten volumes of exaction.

Source: The Devil's...

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LOGIC, n. The...

LOGIC, n. The...

LOGIC, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human...

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MINE, adj. Belonging...

MINE, adj. Belonging...

MINE, adj. Belonging to me if I can hold or seize it.

Source: The Devil's...

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MAYONNAISE, n. One...

MAYONNAISE, n. One...

MAYONNAISE, n. One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

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MESMERISM, n. Hypnotism...

MESMERISM, n. Hypnotism...

MESMERISM, n. Hypnotism before it wore good clothes, kept a carriage and asked Incredulity to...

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MUSTANG, n. An...

MUSTANG, n. An...

MUSTANG, n. An indocile horse of the western plains. In English society, the American wife of an English...

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MIND, n. A...

MIND, n. A...

MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavor to ascertain...

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MONUMENT, n. A...

MONUMENT, n. A...

MONUMENT, n. A structure intended to commemorate something which either needs no commemoration or cannot be...

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NOUMENON, n. That...

NOUMENON, n. That...

NOUMENON, n. That which exists, as distinguished from that which merely seems to exist, the latter being a phenomenon....

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NEPOTISM, n. Appointing...

NEPOTISM, n. Appointing...

NEPOTISM, n. Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party.

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OPTIMIST, n. A...

OPTIMIST, n. A...

OPTIMIST, n. A proponent of the doctrine that black is white. A pessimist applied to God for...

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Francis Bacon: My essays ....

Francis Bacon: My essays ....

My essays . . . come home, to men's business, and bosoms.

Source: Essays,...

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Francis Bacon: Severity breedeth fear,...

Francis Bacon: Severity breedeth fear,...

Severity breedeth fear, but roughness breedeth hate. Even reproofs from authority ought to be grave and not...

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Francis Bacon: In every great...

Francis Bacon: In every great...

In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events...

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