Thursday, July 19, 2007

DD29. DEFT DEFINITIONS

TRAGEDY A peculiar sense of the presence of someone else's pain, a sense too that quickens our wits; we are given a new range of experience such as sufferings of our own bring but no shock to us past using it.
TREE Something that stands in the same place for days, months and even years and than suddenly, when you least expect it, jumps out right in front of your car.
TROUBLES a) Certain unfortunate events which it is best to relate to others since the world's dumb indifference could make you mad enough to keep you fighting.
b) They are like the hills ahead, they straighten out when advances upon them.
TRUTH a) A matter of taste.
b) Time is said to be precious, but truth is more precious than time, though all great truths begin as blasphemies.
TRANSLATION It is like a French lady. It can either be beautiful or faithful.
TWIN Womb-mate.
UNDERSTANDING Shortest distance between two minds intellects.
VACATION A period during which people find out where to stay away from next time.
VANITY a) Constant enemy of our dignity.
b) The beginning and end of the man's standing in society.
VENGEANCE a) A dish that must be eaten cold.
b) Test for forgiveness.
VICE The darkness that brings virtue to light.
VIOLENCE Last refuge of the scoundrel.
VIRTUE a) Cheating yourself of your natural desire to win at any cost.
b) A quality in human-beings that fattens on the vices of others.
VITALITY Ability to persist.
VOLCANO A sick mountain sufferings from hiccups.

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