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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…
- Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.
- Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
- 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)…
- The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of a remarkable Christian forebearance among men.
- 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.
- 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.…
- 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.
- The natural equipment to accomplish some small part of the meaner ambitions distinguishing able men from dead ones. In the last analysis ability is commonly…
- The circus a place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.
- PRESIDENT, n. The leading figure in a small group of men of whom - and of whom only - it is positively known that immense…
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