Logic -- Juvenile literature; Logic, Symbolic and mathematical
18. No antelope is ungraceful; Graceful animals delight the
eye.
19. Some uncles are ungenerous; All merchants are generous.
20. No unhappy people chuckle; No happy people groan.
21. Audible music causes vibration in the air; Inaudible
music is not worth paying for.
22. He gave me five pounds; I was delighted.
23. No old Jews are fat millers; All my friends are old
millers.
24. Flour is good for food; Oatmeal is a kind of flour.
25. Some dreams are terrible; No lambs are terrible.
26. No rich man begs in the street; All who are not rich
should keep accounts.
27. No thieves are honest; Some dishonest people are found
out.
28. All wasps are unfriendly; All puppies are friendly.
29. All improbable stories are doubted; None of these
stories are probable.
30. "He told me you had gone away." "He never says one word
of truth."
31. His songs never last an hour; A song, that lasts an
hour, is tedious.
32. No bride-cakes are wholesome; Unwholesome food should
be avoided.
33. No old misers are cheerful; Some old misers are thin.
34. All ducks waddle; Nothing that waddles is graceful.
35. No Professors are ignorant; Some ignorant people are
conceited.
36. Toothache is never pleasant; Warmth is never unpleasant.
37. Bores are terrible; You are a bore.
38. Some mountains are insurmountable; All stiles can be
surmounted.
39. No Frenchmen like plumpudding; All Englishmen like
plumpudding.
40. No idlers win fame; Some painters are not idle.
41. No lobsters are unreasonable; No reasonable creatures
expect impossibilities.
42. No kind deed is unlawful; What is lawful may be done
without fear.
43. No fossils can be crossed in love; Any oyster may be
crossed in love.
44. "This is beyond endurance!" "Well, nothing beyond
endurance has ever happened to me."
45. All uneducated men are shallow; All these students are
educated.
46. All my cousins are unjust; No judges are unjust.
47. No country, that has been explored, is infested
by dragons; Unexplored countries are fascinating.
48. No misers are generous; Some old men are not generous.
49. A prudent man shuns hyaenas; No banker is imprudent.
50. Some poetry is original; No original work is producible
at will.
51. No misers are unselfish; None but misers save egg-shells.
52. All pale people are phlegmatic; No one, who is not
pale, looks poetical.
53. All spiders spin webs; Some creatures, that do not spin
webs, are savage.
54. None of my cousins are just; All judges are just.
55. John is industrious; No industrious people are unhappy.
56. Umbrellas are useful on a journey; What is useless on
a journey should be left behind.
57. Some pillows are soft; No pokers are soft.
58. I am old and lame; No old merchant is a lame gambler.
59. No eventful journey is ever forgotten; Uneventful
journeys are not worth writing a book about.
60. Sugar is sweet; Some sweet things are liked by children.
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