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[furor] noun; an angry or maniacal fit; a fashionable craze; furious or hectic activity

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[Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.]

Jane Austen

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[abyssal] adjective; unfathomable; of or relating to the bottom waters of the ocean depths

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[There is a theory that states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.]

Douglas Adams

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[elucidate] intransitive verb; to give a clarifying explanation

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[Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.]

David T. Wolf

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[transmogrify] transitive verb; to change or alter greatly and often with grotesque or humorous effect

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[In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are.]

Nicholas Chamfort

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[velocipede] noun; a lightweight wheeled vehicle propelled by the rider

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[Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own special laws.]

Douglas Adams

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[ardent] adjective; characterized by warmth of feeling typically expressed in eager zealous support or activity; shining, glowing; fiery, hot

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[Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.]

Comte de Bussy-Rabutin

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[copacetic] adjective; very satisfactory

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[To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.]

Jane Austen

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[elide] transitive verb; to omit; to strike out (as a written word)

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[He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.]

Douglas Adams

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[phytivorous] adjective; pertaining to vegetable-eating

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[Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances of survival for life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.]

Albert Einstein

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[loupe] noun; the small magnifying glass used by jewelers

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[Would those of you in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.]

John Lennon

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[fremescent] adjective; becoming murmurous, roaring

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[If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.]

Anatole France

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[logomaniac] noun; a person obsessed with words

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[Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannonballs and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said today.]

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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[festinate] verb; hasten, walk fast, or move rapidly

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[You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.]

John Carroll

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[labrose] adjective; having large or thick lips

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[A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.]

Ingrid Bergman

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[pecunious] adjective; abounding in money, wealthy, rich

QUOTE|of the day

[Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.]

Dorothy Parker

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[eximious] adjective; choice, select, or excellent

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[To love and be loved--this on earth is the highest bliss.]

Heinrich Heine

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[patavinity] noun; the use of local slang or expressions in writing

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[Sloppy, raggedy-assed old life. I love it. I never want to die.]

Dennis Trudell

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[hoxter] noun; the inside pocket on a suit or coat

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[No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.]

Sir Frederick G. Banting