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POTABLE, n. Suitable...

POTABLE, n. Suitable...

POTABLE, n. Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be potable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although...

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PRESCRIPTION, n. A...

PRESCRIPTION, n. A...

PRESCRIPTION, n. A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the...

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REPARTEE, n. Prudent...

REPARTEE, n. Prudent...

REPARTEE, n. Prudent insult in retort. Practiced by gentlemen with a constitutional aversion to violence, but a strong...

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REFUSAL, n. Denial...

REFUSAL, n. Denial...

REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired; Refusals are graded in a descending scale of finality thus: the refusal...

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REPENTANCE, n. The...

REPENTANCE, n. The...

REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation...

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REPUBLIC, n. A...

REPUBLIC, n. A...

REPUBLIC, n. A nation in which, the thing governing and the thing governed being the same, there is only a permitted...

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TABLE D'HOTE, n....

TABLE D'HOTE, n....

TABLE D'HOTE, n. A caterer's thrifty concession to the universal passion for...

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SYMBOL, n. Something...

SYMBOL, n. Something...

SYMBOL, n. Something that is supposed to typify or stand for something else. Many symbols are mere survivals -- as...

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MAUSOLEUM, n. The...

MAUSOLEUM, n. The...

MAUSOLEUM, n. The final and funniest folly of the rich.

Source: The Devil's...

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MEDICINE, n. A...

MEDICINE, n. A...

MEDICINE, n. A stone flung down the Bowery to kill a dog in Broadway.

Source: The...

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NOBLEMAN, n. Nature's...

NOBLEMAN, n. Nature's...

NOBLEMAN, n. Nature's provision for wealthy American minds ambitious to incur social distinction and suffer high...

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OMEN, n. A...

OMEN, n. A...

OMEN, n. A sign that something will happen if nothing happens.

Source: The Devil's...

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G K Chesterton: Most Americans are...

G K Chesterton: Most Americans are...

Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent...

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G K Chesterton: He could not...

G K Chesterton: He could not...

He could not think up to the height of his own towering style.

Source: Speaking of...

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Mark Twain: To eat in...

Mark Twain: To eat in...

To eat in human. To digest divine.

Source: In 1,911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said,...

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G K Chesterton: The chief object...

G K Chesterton: The chief object...

The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.

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G K Chesterton: The Christian ideal...

G K Chesterton: The Christian ideal...

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left...

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G K Chesterton: To have a...

G K Chesterton: To have a...

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

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G K Chesterton: There is no...

G K Chesterton: There is no...

There is no skeptic who does not feel that men have doubted before, but no man in love thinks that anyone has been in...

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G K Chesterton: When you break...

G K Chesterton: When you break...

When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small...

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