Identify these obfuscations of celebrated oracular utterances:
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Identify these obfuscations of celebrated oracular utterances:
1. Scintillate, scintillate, asteroid minific.
2. Members of an avian species of identical plumage congregate.
3. Surveillance should precede saltation.
4. Pulchritude possesses solely cutaneous profundity.
5. It is fruitless to become lachrymose over precipitately departed
lacteal fluid.
6. Freedom from incrustations of grime is contiguous to rectitude.
7. It is fruitless to attempt to indoctrinate a superannuated canine
with innovative maneuvers.
8. Eschew the implement of correction and vitiate the scion.
9. The temperature of the aqueous content of an unremittingly ogled
saucepan does not reach 212 degrees F.
10. All articles that coruscate with resplendence are not truly
auriferous.
11. Where there are visible vapors having their prevenience in ignited
carbonaceous materials, there is conflagration.
12. Sorting on the part of mendicants must be interdicted.
13. A plethora of individuals with expertise in culinary techniques
vitiate the potable concoction produced by steeping certain
comestibles.
14. Eleemosynary deeds have their incipience intramurally.
15. Made cadavers are incapable of yielding any testimony.
16. Individuals who make their abode in vitreous edifices would be
advised to refrain from catapulting petrous projectiles.
17. Neophyte's serendipity.
18. A revolving lithic conglomerate accumulates no congeries of a
small, green bryophytic plant.
19. The person presenting the ultimate cachinnation possesses thereby
the optimal cachinnation.
20. Missiles of ligneous or oterous consistency have the potential of
fracturing my osseous structure, but appellations will eternally
remain innocuous.
21. Exclusive dedication to necessitous chores without interludes of
hedonistic diversion renders John a hebetudinous fellow.
22. Abstention from any eleatory undertakings precludes a potential
escalation of a lucrative nature.
23. The stylus is more potent than the claymore.
-- Keith S <keith@flinet.com>
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1 Twinkle, twinkle, little star. 2 Birds of a feather flock together. 3 Look before you leap. 4 Beauty is skin deep. 5 Don't cry over spilled milk. 6 Cleanliness comes before godliness. 7 You can't teach an old dog new tricks. 8 Spare the rod and spoil the child. 9 A watched pot never boils. 10 All that glitters is not gold. 11 Where there's smoke, there's fire. 12 Beggars can't be choosers. 13 Too many cooks spoil the soup. 14 A good deed is its own reward. 15 Dead men tell no tales. 16 People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. 17 Beginner's luck. 18 A rolling stone gathers no moss. 19 He who laughs last laughs best. 20 Sticks and stones may break my bones, etc. 21 All work and no play makes John a dull boy. 22 Nothing ventured, nothing gained (should be **aleatory**). 23 The pen is mightier than the sword. -- Chris Behrens <cbehrens@cyberhighway.net> [ Editor: "contiguous to" in 6 means "next to", giving the usual "Cleanliness is next to godliness"; in 14, "eleemosynary deeds" are acts of charity and "intramurally" is "at home", giving "Charity begins at home". ]