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• MAD: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
• Mad: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence...
• Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie
  o be laid in the balance they are altogether lighter than vanity....
• Mad, adj.: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence .
  .. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• He was a wight of high renowne, And those but of a low degree
  Itt 's pride that putts the countrye doune, Then take thine old cloake about thee....
• Did you hear about an operatic soprano and her symphony-harpist boyfriend who have developed a high degree of artistic empathy, she humming his parts while he fingers her passages.
• Did you hear about the operatic soprano and her symphony-harpist boyfriend who have developed a high degree of artistic empathy, she humming his parts while he fingers her passages.