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Historian - a broad-gauge gossip.

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Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.

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Doubt is the father of invention.

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Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.

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Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

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There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.

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Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.

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Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.

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

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Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.

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Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

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

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Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.

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Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

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Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.

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Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.

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

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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

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Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

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

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Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.

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Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

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Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.

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Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.

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Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.

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Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.

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

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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

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It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.

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Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.

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History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

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Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.

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Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.

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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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Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

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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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