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1.                 From The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906):
                   
   
   
                   
                     
   QUILL, n.  An implement of torture yielded by a goose and commonly
   wielded by an ass.  This use of the quill is now obsolete, but its
   modern equivalent, the steel pen, is wielded by the same everlasting
   Presence.