Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was poured on his lips to revive him.
Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
IMPOSTOR n. A rival aspirant to public honors.
PORTUGUESE, n.pl. A species of geese indigenous to Portugal. They are mostly without feathers and imperfectly edible, even when stuffed with garlic.
R.I.P. A careless abbreviation of "requiescat in pace", attesting to indolent goodwill to the dead. According to the learned Dr. Drigge, however, the letters originally meant nothing more than "reductus in pulvis".