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• An idea, like a ghost (according to the common notion of a ghost) must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
  -- Charles Dicke...
• Let sleeping dogs lie. -- Charles Dicke
• lexer /lek'sr/ n. Common hacker shorthand for `lexical analyzer', the input-tokenizing stage in the parser for a language (the part that breaks it into word-like pieces).
  Some C lexers get confused by the old-style compound ops like =-....
• Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, all very good words for the lips,--especially prunes and prism.
  -- Charles Dickens (1812-1870) -- Little Dorrit, Book ii, Chap. v...
• Whatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the public departments in the art of perceiving HOW NOT TO DO IT.
  -- Charles Dickens (1812-1870) -- Little Dorrit, Book ii, Chap. x...
• Barkis is willin'. -- Charles Dickens (1812-1870) -- David Copperfield, Chap. v
• Get hold of portable property. -- Charles Dickens, Great Expectatio
• In a Pickwickian sense. -- Charles Dickens (1812-1870) -- Pickwick Papers, Chap. i