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- All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
- Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
- I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats.
- Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.
- The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of a remarkable Christian forebearance among men.
- PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion for…
- Revelation: a famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the commentators, who know nothing.
- Certain old men prefer to rise at dawn, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach and otherwise mortifying the flesh.…
- Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else
- NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient.
- PREDESTINATION, n. The doctrine that all things occur according to programme. . . . not be confused with that of foreordination. The difference is great…
- POVERTY, n. A file provided for the teeth of the rats of reform. Its victims are distinguished by possession of all the virtues and by…
- MALTHUSIAN, adj. Pertaining to Malthus and his doctrines, who believed in artificially limiting population, but found that it could not be done by talking. Herod…
- EXISTENCE, n. A transient, horrible, fantastic dream,/ Wherein is nothing yet all things do seem:/ From which we're wakened by a friendly nudge/ Of our…
- UBIQUITY, n. The gift or power of being in all places at one time, but not in all places at all times, which is omnipresence,…
- Immoral: Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to be…
- Birth: The first and direst of all disasters.
- Book - Learning : The dunce's derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impertinent ignorance.
- POTABLE, n. Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be potable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although even they find it palatable only…
- BIRTH, n. The first and direst of all disasters. As to the nature of it there appears to be no uniformity. Castor and Pollux were…
- PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A thought that snores in words that smoke. All that is mortal of a…
- INJUSTICE, n. A burden which of all those that we load upon others and carry ourselves is lightest in the hands and heaviest upon the…
- THEOSOPHY, n. An ancient faith having all the certitude of religion and all the mystery of science.
- URBANITY, n. The kind of civility that urban observers ascribe to dwellers in all cities but New York. Its commonest expression is heard in the…
- VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit.
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