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| CONNOISSEUR, n. A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else. |
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| CONNOISSEUR, n. A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else. An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was pouted on his lips to revive him. "Pauillac, 1873," he murmured and died. |
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| Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others. |
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| CONSOLATION, n. The knowledge that a better man is more unfortunate than yourself. |
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| CONSUL, n. In American politics, a person who having failed to secure and office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country. |
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| CONSULT, v.i. To seek another's disapproval of a course already decided on. |
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| Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon |
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| CONTEMPT, n. The feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed. |
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CONTROVERSY, n. A battle in which spittle or ink replaces the injurious cannon-ball and the inconsiderate bayonet.
In controversy with the facile tongue -- That bloodless warfare of the old and young -- So seek your adversary to engage That on himself he shall exhaust his rage, And, like a snake that's fastened to the ground, With his own fangs inflict the fatal wound. You ask me how this miracle is done? Adopt his own opinions, one by one, And taunt him to refute them; in his wrath He'll sweep them pitilessly from his path. Advance then gently all you wish to prove, Each proposition prefaced with, "As you've So well remarked," or, "As you wisely say, And I cannot dispute," or, "By the way, This view of it which, better far expressed, Runs through your argument." Then leave the rest To him, secure that he'll perform his trust And prove your views intelligent and just. --Conmore Apel Brune |
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| CONTROVERSY, n. A battle in which spittle or ink replaces the injurious cannon-ball and the inconsiderate bayonet. |
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| Convent: A place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness |
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| CONVERSATION, n. A fair to the display of the minor mental commodities, each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own wares to observe those of his neighbor. |
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| CORONATION, n. The ceremony of investing a sovereign with the outward and visible signs of his divine right to be blown skyhigh with a dynamite bomb. |
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CORPORAL, n. A man who occupies the lowest rung of the military ladder.
Fiercely the battle raged and, sad to tell, Our corporal heroically fell! Fame from her height looked down upon the brawl And said: "He hadn't very far to fall." --Giacomo Smith |
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| CORPORATION, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit |
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| Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility. |
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| Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs. |
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CRAYFISH, n. A small crustacean very much resembling the lobster, but less indigestible.
In this small fish I take it that human wisdom is admirably figured and symbolized; for whereas the crayfish doth move only backward, and can have only retrospection, seeing naught but the perils already passed, so the wisdom of man doth not enable him to avoid the follies that beset his course, but only to apprehend their nature afterward. --Sir James Merivale |
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