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Abraham Lincoln: A jury too...

Abraham Lincoln: A jury too...

A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the...

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Abraham Lincoln: Stand with anybody...

Abraham Lincoln: Stand with anybody...

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes...

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John Lennon: Rituals are important....

John Lennon: Rituals are important....

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being...

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Earl Nightingale: Picture yourself in...

Earl Nightingale: Picture yourself in...

Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing...

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Earl Nightingale: What's going on...

Earl Nightingale: What's going on...

What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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MAJESTY, n. The...

MAJESTY, n. The...

MAJESTY, n. The state and title of a king. Regarded with a just contempt by the Most Eminent Grand Masters, Grand...

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METROPOLIS, n. A...

METROPOLIS, n. A...

METROPOLIS, n. A stronghold of provincialism.

Source: The Devil's Dictionary,...

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MEERSCHAUM, n. A...

MEERSCHAUM, n. A...

MEERSCHAUM, n. A fine white clay, which for convenience in coloring it brown is made into tobacco pipes and smoked by...

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RABBLE, n. In...

RABBLE, n. In...

RABBLE, n. In a republic, those who exercise a supreme authority tempered by fraudulent elections. The rabble is like...

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READING, n. The...

READING, n. The...

READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short...

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RICE-WATER, n. A...

RICE-WATER, n. A...

RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and...

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RECOUNT, n. In...

RECOUNT, n. In...

RECOUNT, n. In American politics, another throw of the dice, accorded to the player against whom they are...

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SPOOKER, n. A...

SPOOKER, n. A...

SPOOKER, n. A writer whose imagination concerns itself with supernatural phenomena, especially in the doings of...

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TWICE, adv. Once...

TWICE, adv. Once...

TWICE, adv. Once too often.

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

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WIT, n. The...

WIT, n. The...

WIT, n. The salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it...

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TRICHINOSIS, n. The...

TRICHINOSIS, n. The...

TRICHINOSIS, n. The pig's reply to proponents of porcophagy.

Source: The Devil's...

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WAR, n. A...

WAR, n. A...

WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international...

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YOUTH, n. The...

YOUTH, n. The...

YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: We know better...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: We know better...

We know better than we do. We do not yet possess ourselves. . .

Source: In The...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Who shall set...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Who shall set...

Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?

Source: The Conduct of...

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