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• GRAPE, n. Hail noble fruit! -- by Homer sung, Anacreon and Khayyam
  Thy praise is ever on the tongue Of better men than I am....
• And when with envy Time, transported, Shall think to rob us of our joys, You 'll in your girls again be courted, And I 'll go wooing in my boys.
  -- Thomas Percy (1728-1811) -- Winifreda (1720)...
• RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
  Sharp, irresistible by mail or shield, By guard unparried as by flight unstayed, O serviceable Rumor, let me wield Against my enemy no other blade....
• KEEP, v.t. He willed away his whole estate, And then in death he fell asleep, Murmuring
  Well, at any rate, My name unblemished I shall keep....
• Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on,--how then?
  Can honour set to a leg? no: or an arm? no: or take away the grief of a wound?...
• FIDDLE, n. An instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a horse's tail on the entrails of a cat.
  To Rome said Nero: "If to smoke you turn I shall not cease to fiddle while you burn....
• When I hear the word "Culture" I pick up my Browning. -- Hanns Johst (1890-?)
• LOSS, n. Privation of that which we had, or had not.
  Thus, in the latter sense, it is said of a defeated candidate that he "lost his electio...
• OVATION, n. n ancient Rome, a definite, formal pageant in honor of one who had been disserviceable to the enemies of the nation.
  A lesser "triumph." In modern English the word is improperly used to signify any loose and spontaneous expression of popular homage to the hero of the hour and place....