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- Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
- Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of…
- Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.
- 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.
- WHEAT, n. A cereal from which a tolerably good whisky can be made; . . . also for bread. The French are said to eat…
- UNDERSTANDING, n. A cerebral secretion that enables one having it to know a house from a horse by the roof on the house. Its nature…
- QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty and excellence of this incomparable adjective is unhappily denied to him who has…
- IGNORAMUS, n. A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about.
- ZANY, n. A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the _buffone_, or clown, and was therefore the ape of an…
- There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.
- MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavour to ascertain its own nature, the futility…
- Good-bye -- if you hear of my being stood up against a stone wall and shot to rags please know that I think that a…
- Acquaintance: "A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when…
- We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.
- If this is a crush, then I don't know if I could take the real thing if it happens.
- READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in dialect and…
- ADVICE, n. The smallest current coin. The man was in such deep distress, Said Tom, that I could do no less Than give him good…
- IGNORAMUS, n. A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about. Dumble was…
- REVELATION, n. A famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the commentators, who know…
- YESTERDAY, n. The infancy of youth, the youth of manhood, the entire past of age. But yesterday I should have thought me blest To stand…
- ASS, n. A public singer with a good voice but no ear. In Virginia City, Nevada, he is called the Washoe Canary, in Dakota, the…
- ABDOMEN, n. The temple of the god Stomach, in whose worship, with sacrificial rights, all true men engage. From women this ancient faith commands but…
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