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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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PLAGUE, n. In ancient times a general punishment of the innocent for admonition of their ruler, as in the familiar...
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REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of...
SAW, n. A trite popular saying, or proverb. (Figurative and colloquial.) So called because it makes its way into a...
TEETOTALER, n. One who abstains from strong drink, sometimes totally, sometimes tolerably...
TALK, v.t. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without purpose. More about this quote...
WITTICISM, n. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted, and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a...
We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases. More about this quote...
We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a...
We think our civilization near its meridian, but we are yet only at the cock-crowing and morning...
We may be partial, but Fate is not.Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed....
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any...
Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn. More about this quote...
A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures.Source: Essays, Of...
Books will speak plain when counsellors blanch.Source: Essays, 20, `Of...
My essays . . . come home, to men's business, and bosoms.Source: Essays,...
The speaking in a perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but in love.Source:...
Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry. More about this quote...
The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of...
Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude. More about this quote...
Sentimentalists. . . adopt whatever merit is in good repute, and almost make it hateful with their praise. The warmer...
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