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Envy shoots at others and wounds herself.
Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow proves the substance true.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Criticism, Part ii, Line 266...
Enzymes are things invented by biologists that explain things which otherwise require harder thinking.
-- Jerome Lettvi...
EO Electrocute Operato
EOF: /E-O-F/ [abbreviation, `End Of File'] n. 1.
EOI Execute Operator Immediate [fast vers. of another opcode]
EOL: /E-O-L/ [End Of Line] n. Syn. for {newline}, derived perhaps from the original CDC6600 Pascal.
Now rare, but widely recognized and occasionally used for brevity. Used in the example e...
EOU: /E-O-U/ n. The mnemonic of a mythical ASCII control character (End Of User) that would make an ASR-33 Teletype explode on receipt.
This construction parodies the numerous obscure delim...
Epaminondas is reported wittily to have said of a good man that died about the time of the battle of Leuctra, "How came he to have so much leisure as to die, when there was so much stirring?
-- Plu...
EPAULET, n. An ornamented badge, serving to distinguish a military officer from the enemy -- that is to say, from the officer of lower rank to whom his death would give promotion.
-- Ambrose Bierce...

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