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- A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes…
- Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
- The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
- Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
- Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig,…
- Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.
- It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.
- Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man…
- Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty)…
- An auctioneer is a man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.
- 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…
- Male, A member of the unconsidered or negligible gender. The male of the human race is commonly known to the female as Mere Man. The…
- Contempt; the feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed.
- EXCEPTION, n. A thing which takes the liberty to differ from other things of its class, as an honest man, a truthful woman, etc.
- A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe.
- WINE, n.Fermented grape-juice known to the Women's Christian Union as "liquor," sometimes as "rum." Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.
- Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.
- A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet for the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction.
- MOUTH, n. In man, the gateway to the soul; in woman, the outlet of the heart.
- BRAIN, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think. That which distinguishes the man who is content to be something from the man…
- A man who piously shuts himself up to meditate upon the sin of wickedness and to keep it fresh in his mind joins a brotherhood…
- MUMMY, n. - an ancient Egyptian handy, too, in museums in gratifying the vulgar curiosity that serves to distinguish man from the lower animals.
- CLERGYMAN, n. A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of better his temporal ones.
- WOMAN, n. An animal usually living in the vicinity of Man, and having a rudimentary susceptibility to domestication.
- FOLLY, n. That "gift and faculty divine" whose creative and controlling energy inspires Man's mind, guides his actions and adorns his life.
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- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
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- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
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