The Roycroft Dictionary, Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days. Elbert Hubbard
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Название: The Roycroft Dictionary, Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days
Автор: Elbert Hubbard
Издательство: Bookwire
Жанр: Языкознание
isbn: 4064066100643
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Courage: 1. A matter of the red corpuscle. 2. A matter of getting used to it. (It is oxygen that makes every attack, and without oxygen in his blood to back him, a man attacks nothing—not even a pie.—From Wilbur Nesbit's book Bunc as I Have Found It.)
Creed: A metaphor with ankylosis—a figure of speech frozen stiff with fright.
Curiosity: 1. A gulf that swallows gods, men, creeds, matter, worlds, philosophies. 2. A peephole in the brain through which one sees the pomp and ceremony of the Absurd. 3. A monstrous antenna that feels its way through matter and mind, and founders in the Infinite. 4. At its lowest, the instinct that boosts us up to peep over our neighbor's transom, symboled by a knot-hole.
Critics: Men who quarrel over the motive of a book that never had any.
Criminal: One who does by illegal means what all the rest of us do legally.
Cromwell (Oliver): The father of Nell Gwynn.
Credit: The lifeblood of commerce.
Caste: A Chinese Wall that deprives you of the society of sensible people.
Cain: The first progressive.
Death: 1. To stop sinning suddenly. 2. To resign one's membership in the Ananias Club. 3. A readjustment of life's forces.
Debt: 1. A rope to your foot, cockleburs in your hair, and a clothespin on your tongue. 2. The devil in disguise.
Demagogue: One whose highest ambition is to stand on the grave of a great dead industry and boast to an army of unemployed of his bloody deeds.
Decalogue: 1. The stakes that hold in its place the social circus-tent. 2. A collection of commandments formulated by a person who has broken them all. 3. An incubator in which eaglets are transformed into capons. 4. A fence that confines animals that can not climb or fly. (The most famous Decalogue is known as the Ten Commandments. Whoso has obeyed this Decalogue in toto has died obscure, poor, unsung, unwept, and overlooked by Clio.)
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