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Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

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Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

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Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

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Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.

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Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.

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Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

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Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.

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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.

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Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.

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Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.

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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

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Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.

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Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

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Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.

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Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

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Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

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Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.

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When you doubt, abstain.

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Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.

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Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.

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Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.

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Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.

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A man is known by the company he organizes.

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Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.

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Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.

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Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

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Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.

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To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.

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Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.

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Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

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The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.

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Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.

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Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.

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Edible - good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.

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What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

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Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.

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