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Habit: A shackle for the free.

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MANICHEISM, n. The ancient Persian doctrine of an incessant warfare between Good and Evil. When Good gave up the fight the Persians joined the victorious Opposition.

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Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

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Pertaining to a certain order of architecture, otherwise known as Normal American. Most of the public buildings of the United States are of the Ramshackle order, though some of our earlier architects preferred the Ironic. Recent additions to the White House in Washington are Theo-Doric, the ecclesiastic order of the Dorians. They are exceedingly fine and cost one hundred dollars a brick.

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Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.

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Inexpedient: Not calculated to advance one's interests.

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DEGRADATION, n. One of the stages of moral and social progress from private station to political preferment.

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Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.

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YESTERDAY, n. The infancy of youth, the youth of manhood, the entire past of age.

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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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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.

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HOMOEOPATHY, n. A school of medicine midway between Allopathy and Christian Science. To the last both the others are distinctly inferior, for Christian Science will cure imaginary diseases, and they can not.

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MONARCH, n. A person engaged in reigning. Formerly the monarch ruled, as the derivation of the word attests, and as many subjects have had occasion to learn.

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PALACE, n. A fine and costly residence, particularly that of a great official. The residence of a high dignitary of the Christian Church is called a palace; that of the Founder of his religion was known as a field, or wayside. There is progress.

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TALK, v.t. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without purpose.

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Nothing is more logical than persecution. Religious tolerance is a kind of infidelity.

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INJUSTICE, n. A burden which of all those that we load upon others and carry ourselves is lightest in the hands and heaviest upon the back.

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RECONCILIATION, n. A suspension of hostilities. An armed truce for the purpose of digging up the dead.

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EMOTION, n. A prostrating disease caused by a determination of the heart to the head. It is sometimes accompanied by a copious discharge of hydrated chloride of sodium from the eyes.

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

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