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• Please be SILENT and LISTEN. I am the SCHOOLMASTER and you are in the CLASSROOM. Just like ELEVEN PLUS TWO equals TWELVE PLUS ONE, And even a FUNERAL can be REAL FUN, You will find my DICTIONARY is quite INDICATORY. If you want to read my story, just look... THEN UNREAD.

  Pseudonymous Bosch

  Fun, Real, Two

  Pseudonymous Bosch (2011). “The Name of this Book is Secret: The Secret Series”, p.54, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• Your friend's poetry is terrible," he said. Clary blinked, caught momentarily off guard. "What?" "I said his poetry was terrible. It sounds like he ate a dictionary and started vomiting up words at random.

  Cassandra Clare

  Sound, Vomiting, Caught

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “Sample of the CITYs”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• Burns from dropped matches, Ms. Lane? Matches one might have dropped while flirting with a pernicious Fae, Ms. Lane? Have you any idea the value of this rug?” I didn’t think his nostrils could flare any wider. His eyes were black flame. “Pernicious? Good grief, is English your second language? Third?” Only someone who’d learned English from a dictionary would use such a word. “Fifth,” he snarled. “Answer me.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Grief, Eye, Flirting

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• Success brings poise, especially avoirdupois. Success comes before work only in the dictionary.

  William Cranch Bond

  Best Work, Poise, Hard Work Comes Success

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• My Vocabularies vary, its so exclusionary You'll find my baby pictures in modern dictionaries Next to mighty mercenaries, and visual visionaries

  Andre Nickatina

  Baby, Vocabulary, Visionaries

  Song: My Rap World, Album: Tears of a Clown, 1999

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• In English-speaking countries, the connection between heresy and homosexuality is expressed through the use of a single word to denote both concepts: buggery. ... Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (Third Edition) defines "buggery" as "heresy, sodomy.

  Thomas Szasz

  Country, Connections, Use

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1997). “The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement”, p.165, Syracuse University Press

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• Goethe said, "The author whom a lexicon can keep up with is worth nothing"; Somerset Maugham says that the finest compliment he ever received was a letter in which one of his readers said: "I read your novel without having to look up a single word in the dictionary." These writers, plainly, lived in different worlds.

  Randall Jarrell

  Different, Lexicon, Looks

  "No Other Book: Selected Essays". Book by Randall Jarrell. Chapter: "The Obscurity of the Poet", p. 13, 1999.

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• The dictionary says my identity should be all about being separate or distinct, and yet it feels like it is so wrapped up in others.

  Mary E. Pearson

  Identity, Should, Feels

  Mary E. Pearson (2009). “The Adoration of Jenna Fox”, p.190, Macmillan

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• In the dictionary of Cat, mercy is missing.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Cat, Missing, Mercy

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• For my last birthday, Dad bought me a pocket-sized Collins English Dictionary. It would only fit in a pocket that had been specially designed.

  Joe Dunthorne

  Dad, Pockets, Lasts

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• I've been in 'Who's Who' and I know what's what, but it'll be the first time I ever made the dictionary.

  Mae West

  Firsts, Made, First Time

  Goodness Had Nothing to DoWith It ch. 17 (1959)

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• Nothing can astound an American. It has often been asserted that the word "impossible" is not a French one. People have evidently been deceived by the dictionary. In America, all is easy, all is simple; and as for mechanical difficulties, they are overcome before they arise.

  Jules Verne

  Simple, America, People

  Jules Verne (2015). “From the Earth to the moon (low cost). Limited edition”, p.20, Jules Verne

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• Please help keep the world clean: others may wish to use it.
  Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.
  The only place success comes before work is a dictionary
  Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Wish, Detectives, Fiction

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• I think 'unbelievable' is an unbelievably stupid word.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Unbelievable, Stupidest

  "Matthew McConaughey Shares 13 Life Lessons During University of Houston Commencement Address" by Arlene Washington, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 15, 2015.

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• It might interest you to know that the 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary identifies the optimist in complimentary terms, but says nothing about the pessimist. The word 'pessimist' was not in our vocabulary at that time. It's a modern 'invention' which I believe we should 'dis-invent.'

  Zig Ziglar

  Believe, Vocabulary, Might

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• In the doggie dictionary, under "bow wow" it says, "See "arf arf.""

  George Carlin

  Humorous, Wow, Bows

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• For two thousand years Christianity has been telling us: life is death, death is life; it is high time to consult the dictionary.

  Remy de Gourmont

  Wisdom, Years, Two

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• Don't try to be spiritual. That is only a word in the dictionary. Make it your goal to become a normally functioning individual. Let these principles shape you according to your real nature of a simple, decent, honest, unafraid human being.

  Vernon Howard

  Spiritual, Real, Simple

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• Gratitude is a useless word. You will find it in a dictionary but not in life.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Gratitude, Useless, Uselessness

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• I never understood whether the word 'amnesty' is correct or not. Maybe I am not very intelligent but I checked the dictionary to find the meaning.

  Kapil Dev

  Intelligent, Amnesty, Understood

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• DAGUERREOTYPE Will take the place of painting. (See PHOTOGRAPHY.) (From The Dictionary of Received Ideas, assembled from notes Flaubert made in the 1870s.)

  Gustave Flaubert

  Photography, Ideas, Daguerreotypes

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• You'll find sympathy in the dictionary between sh*t and suicide.

  Roddy Piper

  Suicide, Wrestling, Pro Wrestling

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• I can't describe the feeling when I go down - it's down down down and there's never going to be an up again. And whatever was good isn't good any more; white becomes grey, music becomes dictionaries, honey becomes beer and the sky a curdled lemon. There's no caramel anymore.

  John Marsden

  Beer, White, Sky

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• The New Oxford Dictionary has declared Sarah Palin's word 'refudiate' to be the 2010 Word of the Year. Palin was honored and said she would do her best to 'dismangle' the English language.

  Conan O'Brien

  Years, Oxford, Language

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• For me there is no such word as luck in the dictionary.

  Fabrice Muamba

  Luck

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