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PHILOSOPHY, n. A...

PHILOSOPHY, n. A...

PHILOSOPHY, n. A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

Source: The...

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PLEBEIAN, n. An...

PLEBEIAN, n. An...

PLEBEIAN, n. An ancient Roman who in the blood of his country stained nothing but his hands. Distinguished from the...

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PEDESTRIAN, n. The...

PEDESTRIAN, n. The...

PEDESTRIAN, n. The variable (an audible) part of the roadway for an automobile.

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PIE, n. An...

PIE, n. An...

PIE, n. An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion.

Source: The...

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POLITICIAN, n. An...

POLITICIAN, n. An...

POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he...

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PORTABLE, adj. Exposed...

PORTABLE, adj. Exposed...

PORTABLE, adj. Exposed to a mutable ownership through vicissitudes of possession.

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PROOF-READER, n. A...

PROOF-READER, n. A...

PROOF-READER, n. A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it...

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RACK, n. An...

RACK, n. An...

RACK, n. An argumentative implement formerly much used in persuading devotees of a false faith to embrace the living...

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RECONCILIATION, n. A...

RECONCILIATION, n. A...

RECONCILIATION, n. A suspension of hostilities. An armed truce for the purpose of digging up the...

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PRIVATE, n. A...

PRIVATE, n. A...

PRIVATE, n. A military gentleman with a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack and an impediment in his...

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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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RIMER, n. A...

RIMER, n. A...

RIMER, n. A poet regarded with indifference or disesteem.

Source: The Devil's...

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USAGE, n. The...

USAGE, n. The...

USAGE, n. The First Person of the literary Trinity, the Second and Third being Custom and Conventionality. Imbued with...

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G K Chesterton: The most wonderful...

G K Chesterton: The most wonderful...

The most wonderful thing about miracles is that they sometimes happen.

Source: In...

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G K Chesterton: The man who...

G K Chesterton: The man who...

The man who sees consistency in things is a wit; the man who sees the inconsistency in things is a...

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G K Chesterton: To love means...

G K Chesterton: To love means...

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the...

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G K Chesterton: A yawn is...

G K Chesterton: A yawn is...

A yawn is a silent shout.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library,...

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Douglas Coupland: Brain research tells...

Douglas Coupland: Brain research tells...

Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty...

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E B White: I see nothing...

E B White: I see nothing...

I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.

Source: In The...

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E B White: I sometimes doubt...

E B White: I sometimes doubt...

I sometimes doubt that a writer should refine or improve his workroom by so much as a dictionary: one thing leads to...

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