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G K Chesterton: Variability is one...

G K Chesterton: Variability is one...

Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one...

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G K Chesterton: Man does not...

G K Chesterton: Man does not...

Man does not live by soap alone, and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of...

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G K Chesterton: Charity is the...

G K Chesterton: Charity is the...

Charity is the power of defending that which we know to be indefensible. Hope is the power of being cheerful in...

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G K Chesterton: To be simple...

G K Chesterton: To be simple...

To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being...

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G K Chesterton: How you think...

G K Chesterton: How you think...

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

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G K Chesterton: Courage is getting...

G K Chesterton: Courage is getting...

Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

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Gertrude Stein: Counting is the...

Gertrude Stein: Counting is the...

Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.

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Honore de Balzac: Hope is a...

Honore de Balzac: Hope is a...

Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Honore de Balzac: Necessity is the...

Honore de Balzac: Necessity is the...

Necessity is the spur of genius.

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EPITAPH, n. An...

EPITAPH, n. An...

EPITAPH, n. An inscription on a tomb, showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive...

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EULOGY, n. Praise...

EULOGY, n. Praise...

EULOGY, n. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be...

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FINANCE, n. The...

FINANCE, n. The...

FINANCE, n. The art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager. The...

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GAMBLING,n. [As in]...

GAMBLING,n. [As in]...

GAMBLING,n. [As in] 'The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as...

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HAND, n. A...

HAND, n. A...

HAND, n. A singular instrument worn at the end of the human arm and commonly thrust into somebody's...

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FRIENDSHIP, n. A...

FRIENDSHIP, n. A...

FRIENDSHIP, n. A ship big enough to carry two in fair weather, but only one in foul.

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HARBOR, n. A...

HARBOR, n. A...

HARBOR, n. A place where ships taking shelter from storms are exposed to the fury of...

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HYENA, n. A...

HYENA, n. A...

HYENA, n. A beast held in reverence by some oriental nations from its habit of frequenting at night the burial-places...

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IMBECILITY, n. A...

IMBECILITY, n. A...

IMBECILITY, n. A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious critics of this...

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IMPARTIAL, adj. Unable...

IMPARTIAL, adj. Unable...

IMPARTIAL, adj. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy or...

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INDECISION, n. The...

INDECISION, n. The...

INDECISION, n. The chief element of success . . . for he who from indecision standeth still hath not so many chances...

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