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SAW, n. A...

SAW, n. A...

SAW, n. A trite popular saying, or proverb. (Figurative and colloquial.) So called because it makes its way into a...

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TEETOTALER, n. One...

TEETOTALER, n. One...

TEETOTALER, n. One who abstains from strong drink, sometimes totally, sometimes tolerably...

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TALK, v.t. To...

TALK, v.t. To...

TALK, v.t. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without purpose.

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PREDICAMENT, n. The...

PREDICAMENT, n. The...

PREDICAMENT, n. The wage of consistency.

Source: The Devil's Dictionary,...

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REPOSE, v.i. To...

REPOSE, v.i. To...

REPOSE, v.i. To cease from troubling.

Source: The Devil's Dictionary, 1911.
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WOMAN, n. An...

WOMAN, n. An...

WOMAN, n. An animal usually living in the vicinity of Man, and having a rudimentary susceptibility to...

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VANITY, n. The...

VANITY, n. The...

VANITY, n. The tribute of a fool to the worth of the nearest ass.

Source: The...

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YESTERDAY, n. The...

YESTERDAY, n. The...

YESTERDAY, n. The infancy of youth, the youth of manhood, the entire past of age.

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WEDDING, n. A...

WEDDING, n. A...

WEDDING, n. A ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing...

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X, n. In...

X, n. In...

X, n. In our alphabet being a needless letter has an added invincibility to the attacks of the spelling reformers, and...

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WORMS'-MEAT, n. The...

WORMS'-MEAT, n. The...

WORMS'-MEAT, n. The finished product of which we are the raw material.

Source: The...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: One ought never...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: One ought never...

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: The history of...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: The history of...

The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Peace has its...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Peace has its...

Peace has its victories, but it takes a brave man to win them.

Source: In Webster's...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: So far as...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: So far as...

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: The betrothed and...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: The betrothed and...

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: The cannon will...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: The cannon will...

The cannon will not suffer any other sound to be heard for miles and for years around it.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Truth is the...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Truth is the...

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Source: In...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: The stupidity of...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: The stupidity of...

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: The world is...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: The world is...

The world is his who can see through its pretension.

Source: In Webster's...

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