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Every patriot believes his country better than any other country . . . In its active manifestation-it is fond of killing-patriotism would be well enough if it were simply defensive, but it is also aggressive . . . Patriotism deliberately and with folly aforethought subordinates the interests of a whole to the interests of a part . . . Patriotism is fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave and blind as a stone.

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Youth is Gilead, in which is balm for every wound.

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ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a candidate for office energetically expounds the wisdom, virtue and power of the rabble.

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PITIFUL, adj. The state of an enemy or opponent after an imaginary encounter with oneself.

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plagiarism, n. A literary coincidence compounded of a discreditable priority and an honorable subsequence.

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MONAD, n. The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter (see Molecule). The monad has body without bulk, and mind without manifestation - containing all the powers and possibilities needful to his evolution into a German philosopher . .

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TRICHINOSIS, n. The pig's reply to proponents of porcophagy.

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WEAKNESSES, n.pl. Certain primal powers of Tyrant Woman wherewith she holds dominion over the male of her species, binding him to the service of her will and paralyzing his rebellious energies.

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

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BEG, v. To ask for something with an earnestness proportioned to the belief that it will not be given.

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Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

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Immigrant: An unenlightened person who thinks one country better than another.

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Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.

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ORTHOGRAPHY, n. The science of spelling by the eye instead of the ear.

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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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Road, n. A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome to be to where it is futile to go.

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SYCOPHANT- One who approaches Greatness on his belly so that he may not be commanded to turn and be kicked. He is sometimes an editor.

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You cannot adopt politics as a profession and remain honest.

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PREDESTINATION, n. The doctrine that all things occur according to programme. . . . not be confused with that of foreordination. The difference is great enough to have deluged Christendom with ink, to say nothing of the gore.

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predilection, n. The preparatory stage of disillusion.

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