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• Advice: the smallest current coin. -- Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary
• Lenny: See, all along I've been telling Carl I'm married to a beauty queen.
  Now, he's coming over for dinner. Marge: Oh, Lenny, I'm sure he'll like your wife no matter what she looks like....
• UNCTION, n. An oiling, or greasing. The rite of extreme unction consists in touching with oil consecrated by a bishop several parts of the body of one engaged in dying.
  Marbury relates that after the rite had been administered to a certain wicked English nobleman it was discovered that the oil had not been properly consecrated and no other could be obtained....
• Scott: "Do you mind a little advice? Starfleet captains are like children.
  They want everything right now, and they want it their way....
• DEGENERATE, adj. Less conspicuously admirable than one's ancestors.
  The contemporaries of Homer were striking examples of degeneracy...
• Jacques: First, you must get to know your lane. Feel the slickness, feel the slippery finish.
  Caresses it, experience it. Quite smooth, isn't it?...
• Man #1: Champ, do you feel remorse for your crime? Tatum
  Oh, yes. Believe me, my god, if I could turn back the clock on my mother's stair-pushing, I would certainly....
• FRANKALMOIGNE, n. The tenure by which a religious corporation holds lands on condition of praying for the soul of the donor.
  In mediaeval times many of the wealthiest fraternities obtained their estates in this simple and cheap manner, and once when Henry VIII of England sent an officer to confiscate certain vast possessions which a fraternity of monks held by frankalmoigne, "What!...
• The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.
  "I would not interfere with any one's religion, either to strengthen it or to weaken it....