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  ...the gentleman's name is pronounced Ke-ho-tay.
When ignorance from out of our lives can banish Philology, 'tis folly to know Spanish.
Juan Smith
QUORUM, n. A sufficient number of members of a deliberative body to have their own way and their own way of having it. In the United States Senate a quorum consists of the chairman of the Committee on Finance and a messenger from the White House; in the House of Representatives, of the Speaker and the devil.
QUOTATION, n. The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.   The words erroneously repeated.
Intent on making his quotation truer, He sought the page infallible of Brewer, Then made a solemn vow that we would be Condemned eternally. Ah, me, ah, me!
Stumpo Gaker
QUOTIENT, n. A number showing how many times a sum of money belonging to one person is contained in the pocket of another -- usually about as many times as it can be got there.

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RABBLE, n. In a republic, those who exercise a supreme authority tempered by...   Bierce, Ambrose

Excerpt from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 52, February, 1862 · This quote is tagged Quotations · Search on Google Books to find all references and sources for this quotation.

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