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Oscar Wilde: We become lovers...

Oscar Wilde: We become lovers...

We become lovers when we see Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet makes us students. The blood of Duncan is upon our hands,...

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Oscar Wilde: It is only...

Oscar Wilde: It is only...

It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

Source: Vivian, in The Decay...

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Oscar Wilde: Most of our...

Oscar Wilde: Most of our...

Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: What rights are...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: What rights are...

What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Will Rogers: If you ever...

Will Rogers: If you ever...

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Source: In The...

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Will Rogers: We are always...

Will Rogers: We are always...

We are always saying let the law take its course, but what we mean is 'Let the law take our...

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Will Rogers: In Hollywood the...

Will Rogers: In Hollywood the...

In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write, but evidently can't read. If they could read their...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Often a certain...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Often a certain...

Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: So nigh is...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: So nigh is...

So nigh is grandeur to our dust,
So near is God to man,
When Duty whispers low, Thou must,
The youth replies,...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: There is one...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: There is one...

There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their...

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Francis Bacon: Children sweeten labours;...

Francis Bacon: Children sweeten labours;...

Children sweeten labours; but they make misfortunes more bitter.

Source: Essays, 7,...

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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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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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PEACE, n. In...

PEACE, n. In...

PEACE, n. In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

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