The Foolish Dictionary

=ADORE= From _add_, annex, and _ore_, meaning wealth. Example,
foreign nobles who marry American heiresses _adore_ them.

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=ADVICE= A commodity peddled by your lawyer and given away by your
mother-in-law, but impossible to dispose of yourself. Famous
as the one thing which it is "More blessed to give than
receive." =GOOD ADVICE= Something old men give young men when
they can no longer give them a bad example.

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=ADVERSITY= A bottomless lake, surrounded by near-sighted friend...