DD18. DEFT DEFINITIONS

LOGIC a) Grammar of reason.
b) It is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
c) That branch of human sciences which can be used to prune away all sorts of clogging deadwood that clutters up human language.
LOVE a) A divine idea never realized.
b) Conflict between reflexes and reflexion.
c) The fairest and most profitable guest that a reasonable creature can entertain.
d) Life's greatest pleasure, either way.
Passions toy.
e) A rainbow fashioned out of a fusion of tears and smiles of self - sacrifices and self - revelations.
f) Astrolabe of the mysteries of God.
LOYALTY A word which is black and white, so often misapplied, so double - faced and hard to recognize from one side to the other, that, perhaps, it will be better to leave it out of use altogether. Its presence is assumed, its absence blamed with a partial and unreasonable passion. Rarely the same for him who speaks and him who hears from even the most slightly divergent angle and the fact is that the word is a collective whose use with a singular meaning is almost, without an exception, a mistake.
LUCK a) Lazy man's estimate of a worker's success.
b) It generally comes to those who look after it, and my notion is, it taps once in a life-time at everybody's door , but if industry does not open it, away it goes.
c) Chemical reaction produced on mixing preparation with opportunity.
LUXURY a) Mother of fine arts with genius, which itself is a kind of luxury, as their father.
b) The vampire which soothes us into a fatal slumber while it sucks the life-blood in our veins.
LYING A fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an achievement in a bachelor and second nature to a married man or woman.