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Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.
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The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
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Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.
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Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.
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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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Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.
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Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.
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I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats.
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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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Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible.
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I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London.
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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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Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.
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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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Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.
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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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Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon.
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Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.
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Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
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Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.
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Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions.
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Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.
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Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity.
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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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Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
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A man is known by the company he organizes.
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Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.
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Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.
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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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Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.
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Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.
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Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
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The covers of this book are too far apart.
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Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
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Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
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Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
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Edible, adj.: 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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Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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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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Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
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Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
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Alien - an American sovereign in his probationary state.
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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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Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.
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Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.
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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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Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.
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