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Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide: him all tongues greet,...
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REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of...
RUIN, v. To destroy. Specifically, to destroy a maid's belief in the virtue of maids. More about this quote...
SCRAP-BOOK, n. A book that is commonly edited by a fool. Many persons of some small distinction compile scrap-books...
URBANITY, n. The kind of civility that urban observers ascribe to dwellers in all cities but New York. Its commonest...
ZENITH, n. The point in the heavens directly overhead to a man standing or a growing cabbage. A man in bed or a...
RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.Source: The Devil's...
TEETOTALER, n. One who abstains from strong drink, sometimes totally, sometimes tolerably...
SOPHISTRY, n. The controversial method of an opponent, distinguished from one's own by superior insincerity and...
UNITARIAN, n. One who denies the divinity of a Trinitarian.Source: The Devil's...
WIT, n. The salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it...
YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities...
ZEUS, n. The chief of Grecian gods, adored by the Romans as Jupiter and by the modern Americans as God, Gold, Mob and...
We boil at different degrees.Source: Society and Solitude, Eloquence, ...
Our strength grows out of our weakness.Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase,...
Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. . . . Society acquires new arts, and...
The highest virtue is always against the law.Source: From Charles Daney's...
Science does not know its debt to imagination.Source: In Webster's Electronic...
The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of...
Sorrow makes us all children again, destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest knows...
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