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Prestidigitation   Listen
noun
Prestidigitation  n.  Legerdemain; sleight of hand; juggling.





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"Prestidigitation" Quotes from Famous Books



... characters we shall amend our laws in vain. Though Paul plant and Apollos water, the field of reform will grow nothing but the figless thistle and the grapeless thorn. The State is an aggregation of individuals. Its public character is the expression of their personal ones. By no political prestidigitation can it be made better and wiser than the sum of their goodness and wisdom. To expect that men who do not honorably and intelligently conduct their private affairs will honorably and intelligently conduct the affairs ...
— The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays - 1909 • Ambrose Bierce


Words linked to "Prestidigitation" :   magic trick, conjuring trick, conjuration, trick, magic, illusion, thaumaturgy


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