A Thing of Use to No One, but Prized by Two. Roberyzwickey

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The quotes below are taken from Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotable Definitions--Second Edition. They are in groups and each set define the same word or term. All but one of the terms are related to this class (and the other one is universally appreciated). See if you can figure out the appropriate term for each set of definitions.

Word #1:______

–Something which you cannot give without taking, and cannot take without giving. --Anon

–A thing of use to no one, but prized by two. --RoberyZwickey

–A lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. --Ingrid Bergman

Word #2:______

–The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify. --Ambrose Bierce

–The only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns. --J. M. Clark

–The toupee which covers our baldness. --Anon

–A living contact with truth, a transformation in love. An encounter with God. --Peter Minard

Word #3:______

–A large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. --Charles Caleb Colton

–An instrument used for bolstering a prejudice. --Elbert Hubbard

–The anatomy of thought. --John Locke

–A gamble, at terrible odds -- if it was a bet you wouldn't take it. --Thomas Stoppard

Word #4:______

–A sort of mask, richly colored. --John Quincy Adams

–That huge Mississippi of falsehood. --Matthew Arnold

–Petrified imagination. -Arthur Baer

–The great dust heap. --Augustine Berrell

Word #5:______

–Spirit crystallized and substantiated. --Hayyin N. Bialik

–A city to the building of which every human being brought a stone. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

–The blood ofthe soul...Into which our thoughts run, and out of which they grow. --Olliver Wendell Holmes

–A sacred trust and a most important privilege of the higher orders of society. --Friedrich von Schlegel

Word #6:______

–Those fine flowers which relieve the drabness of our existence and help to make the human scene worthwhile.

--Morris R. Cohen

Word #7:______

–The literature of truth.–Josh Billings

–Practical philosophy.–René Descartes

–A series of judgements, revised without ceasing.–Pierre Duclaux

–Trained and organized common sense.–Thomas Henry Huxley

–The skill of proceeding upon general infalliable rules… knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.–Thomas Hobbes

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Word #1:KISS