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| TECHNICALITY, n. In an English court a man named Home was tried for slander in having accused his neighbor of murder. His exact words were: "Sir Thomas Holt hath taken a cleaver and stricken his cook upon the head, so that one side of the head fell upon one shoulder and the other side upon the other shoulder." The defendant was acquitted by instruction of the court, the learned judges holding that the words did not charge murder, for they did not affirm the death of the cook, that being only an inference. | | Uncategorized | |
| TEDIUM, n. Ennui, the state or condition of one that is bored. Many fanciful derivations of the word have been affirmed, but so high an authority as Father Jape says that it comes from a very obvious source --the first words of the ancient Latin hymn _Te Deum Laudamus_. In this apparently natural derivation there is something that saddens. | | Uncategorized | |
| TEETOTALER, n. One who abstains from strong drink, sometimes totally, sometimes tolerably totally. | | Uncategorized | |
| Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. | | Inventions; Technology | |
| TELESCOPE, n. A device having a relation to the eye similar to that of the telephone to the ear, enabling distant objects to plague us with a multitude of needless details. Luckily it is unprovided with a bell summoning us to the sacrifice. | | Uncategorized | |
| Tenacity is a certain quality of the human hand in its relation to the coin of the realm. It attains its highest development in the hand of authority and is considered a serviceable equipment for a career in politics. | | Tenacity | |
| The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up. | | Uncategorized | |
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| The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of a remarkable Christian forbearance among men | | Uncategorized | |
| The future is that period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true, and our happiness is assured. | | Future | |
| The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. | | Uncategorized | |
| The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff. | | Uncategorized | |
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| The plague today...is merely Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness. | | Uncategorized | |
| The Senate is a body of old men charged with high duties and misdemeanors. | | Uncategorized | |
| The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations. | | Uncategorized | |
| The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge. | | Knowledge | |
| The spiritual attitude of a man to a god and a dog to a man. | | Attitude | |
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| The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity. | | Uncategorized | |
