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PROBOSCIS, n. The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of the knife-and-fork that Evolution has as yet denied him. For purposes of humor it is popularly called a trunk.

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Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

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Women play with their beauty as children do with their knives. They wound themselves with it.

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The Godhead is never an object of its own knowledge. Just as a knife doesn't cut itself, fire doesn't burn itself, light doesn't illuminate itself. It's always an endless mystery to itself.

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It is yet another Civilized Power, with its banner of the Prince of Peace in one hand and its loot-basket and its butcher-knife in the other. Is there no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level?.

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Even the clearest and most perfect circumstantial evidence is likely to be at fault, after all, and therefore ought to be received with great caution. Take the case of any pencil, sharpened by any woman; if you have witnesses, you will find she did it with a knife; but if you take simply the aspect of the pencil, you will say that she did it with her teeth.

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Having abandoned the taking of life, refraining from killing, we dwell without violence, with the knife laid down, scrupulous, full of mercy, trembling with compassion for all sentient beings.

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War, war is still the cry,-"war even to the knife!"

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The Godhead is never an object of its own knowledge. Just as a knife doesn't cut itself, fire doesn't burn itself, light doesn't illuminate itself. It's always an endless mystery to itself.

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Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife - what's the answer to that?

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War, war is still the cry,-"war even to the knife!"

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Got tight last night on absinthe and did knife tricks. Great success shooting the knife underhand into the piano. The woodworms are so bad and eat hell out of all the furniture that you can always claim the woodworms did it.

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If the lambs of the world had been willingly led, they would have long ago saved themselves from the butcher's knife.

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This editor is a critic. He has pulled out his carving-knife and his tomahawk and is starting after a book which he is going to have for breakfast.

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The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher's knife.

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Got tight on absinthe last night. Did knife tricks.

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It's like ten thousand spoons, when all you need is a knife.

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If i get 8 hours to cut a tree i'll spend 7 hours to sharp my knife.

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His fine wit Makes such a wound, the knife is lost in it.

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Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring, a south wind, not an east wind.

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