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«The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato, the only good belonging to him is under ground»
Author: Thomas Overbury
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«SPOOKER, n. A writer whose imagination concerns itself with supernatural phenomena, especially in the doings of spooks. One of the most illustrious spookers of our time is Mr. William D. Howells, who introduces a well-credentialed reader to as respectable and mannerly a company of spooks as one could wish to meet. To the terror that invests the chairman of a district school board, the Howells ghost adds something of the mystery enveloping a farmer from another township.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«ZOOLOGY, n. The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, the House Fly (_Musca maledicta_). The father of Zoology was Aristotle, as is universally conceded, but the name of its mother has not come down to us. Two of the science's most illustrious expounders were Buffon and Oliver Goldsmith, from both of whom we learn (_L'Histoire generale des animaux_ and _A History of Animated Nature_) that the domestic cow sheds its horn every two years.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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«The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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«There goes the parson, oh! illustrious spark,/ And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk!»
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