Daguerreotype
Will replace painting. (See Photography.)
Letter D
Dentists
All untruthful. They use "steel balm." Are said to be also chiropodists. Pretend to be surgeons, just as opticians pretend to be physicists.
More from Letter D
Damascus
The only place where the art of making swords is understood. Every good blade is from Damascus.
Dance
"It isn't dancing any more, it's tramping about."
Danton
"Let us dare, and dare again, and forever dare."
Darwin
The fellow who says we're sprung from monkeys.
Days
The master has days: for trimming the beard, for taking a purge, etc. And so has Madame, days which she calls "critical" at certain times of the month.