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Definitions
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“A woman's definition of a bore: a man in love with another woman.”
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“The other man's money is capital; getting it is labor.”
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“... to some men, the definition of selfish is that you don't think about them all the time.”
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“I have defined Ladies as people who did not do things themselves.”
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“Protocol is etiquette with a government expense account.”
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“How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.”
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“Mrs. Morland very wittily defined an agent as someone whom you pay to make bad blood between yourself and your publisher.”
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“The definition of adulthood is that you want to sleep.”
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“If we are to reclaim our culture, we cannot afford narrow definitions.”
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“... who was the cynic who had defined gratitude as thanks for favors to come?”
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“... we expect definitions to tell us not only what is, but what to do about it; to show us how the world fits together and how its different parts connect and work. ... A label is the first step toward action.”
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“'Chutzpah' is best defined as a small boy peeing through someone's letter box, then ringing the doorbell to ask how far it went.”
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“Just as the definition of a nymphomaniac is a person who has more sex than you, an overscheduled child is one enrolled in more classes than yours.”
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“The definition of minor surgery is surgery done on someone else.”
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“The Doorman: A genius who can open the door of your car with one hand, help you in with the other, and still have one left for the tip.”
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“Her definition of a true lady is one who is ignorant of the simplest domestic details to the point of imbecility.”
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“Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the world over — except when they are different.”
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“Protocol may be defined as the code of etiquette which protects royalty from the competition of intellectual and social superiors.”
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“[Sexism is] behavior, policy, language, or other action of men or women which expresses the institutionalized, systematic, comprehensive, or consistent view that women are inferior.”