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) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice,…

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Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.

Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.

Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen.

Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen.

I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are...

I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are...

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and...

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and...

OUTCOME, n. A particular type of disappointment. By the kind of intelligence that sees in...

OUTCOME, n. A particular type of disappointment. By the kind of intelligence that sees in...

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the...

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the...

Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with...

Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with...

RASCALITY, n. Stupidity militant. The activity of a clouded intellect.

RASCALITY, n. Stupidity militant. The activity of a clouded intellect.

OUT-OF-DOORS, n. That part of one's environment upon which no government has been able to...

OUT-OF-DOORS, n. That part of one's environment upon which no government has been able to...

BRAIN, n. An apparatus with which we think what we think. That which distinguishes the...

BRAIN, n. An apparatus with which we think what we think. That which distinguishes the...

Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his...

Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his...

Confidante: One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.

Confidante: One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.

USAGE, n. The First Person of the literary Trinity, the Second and Third being Custom...

USAGE, n. The First Person of the literary Trinity, the Second and Third being Custom...

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of...

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of...

RIBROASTER, n. Censorious language by oneself concerning another. The word is of classical refinement, and...

RIBROASTER, n. Censorious language by oneself concerning another. The word is of classical refinement, and...

An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in...

An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in...

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty...

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty...

COMMERCE, n. A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of...

COMMERCE, n. A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of...

Money buys everything but good sense.

Money buys everything but good sense.

For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the...

For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the...