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Ralph Waldo Emerson: The faith that...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: The faith that...

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

Source: Essays, 'The...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: The only thing...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: The only thing...

The only thing grief as taught me is to know how shallow it is.

Source: In The...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: The true poem...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: The true poem...

The true poem is the poet's mind.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Though we travel...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Though we travel...

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Those who cannot...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Those who cannot...

Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast...

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PITY, n. A...

PITY, n. A...

PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.

Source: The Devil's...

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RAILROAD, n. The...

RAILROAD, n. The...

RAILROAD, n. The chief of many mechanical devices enabling us to get away from where we are to where we are no better...

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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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REPORTER, n. A...

REPORTER, n. A...

REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of...

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SPOOKER, n. A...

SPOOKER, n. A...

SPOOKER, n. A writer whose imagination concerns itself with supernatural phenomena, especially in the doings of...

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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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URBANITY, n. The...

URBANITY, n. The...

URBANITY, n. The kind of civility that urban observers ascribe to dwellers in all cities but New York. Its commonest...

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VIRTUES, n.pl. Certain...

VIRTUES, n.pl. Certain...

VIRTUES, n.pl. Certain abstentions.

Source: The Devil's Dictionary, 1911.
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ULTIMATUM, n. In...

ULTIMATUM, n. In...

ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.

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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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WITTICISM, n. A...

WITTICISM, n. A...

WITTICISM, n. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted, and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a...

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RABBLE, n. In...

RABBLE, n. In...

RABBLE, n. In a republic, those who exercise a supreme authority tempered by fraudulent elections. The rabble is like...

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RED-SKIN, n. A...

RED-SKIN, n. A...

RED-SKIN, n. A North American Indian, whose skin is not red -- at least not on the...

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ROMANCE, n. Fiction...

ROMANCE, n. Fiction...

ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In the novel the writer's thought is...

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RUSSIAN, n. A...

RUSSIAN, n. A...

RUSSIAN, n. A person with a Caucasian body and a Mongolian soul. A Tartar Emetic.

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