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He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.

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Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

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The most offensive egotist is he that fears to say "I" and "me." "It will probably rain" - that is dogmatic. "I think it will rain" - that is natural and modest. Montaigne is the most delightful of essayists because so great is his humility that he does not think it important that we see not Montaigne. He so forgets himself that he employs no artifice to make us forget him.

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Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

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renown, n. A degree of distinction between notoriety and fame - a little more supportable than the one and a little more intolerable than the other. Sometimes it is conferred by an unfriendly and inconsiderate hand.

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ORTHODOX, n. An ox wearing the popular religious joke.

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Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.

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Duck-bill, n. Your account at your restaurant during the canvas-back season.

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The bold and discerning writer who, recognizing the truth that language must grow by innovation if it grow at all, makes new words and uses the old in an unfamiliar sense has no following and is tartly reminded that 'it isn't in the dictionary' - although down to the time of the first lexicographer no author ever had used a word that was in the dictionary.

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critic, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.

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Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

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The partisan strife in which the people of the country are permitted to periodically engage does not tend to the development of ugly traits of character, but merely discloses those that preexist.

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HEART, n. Figuratively, this useful organ is said to be the seat of emotions and sentiments . . . . It is now known that sentiments and emotions reside in the stomach, being evolved from food by chemical action of the gastric fluid.

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The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

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The liberality of one who has much, in permitting one who has nothing to get all that he can.

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PROJECTILE, n. The final arbiter in international disputes. With the growth of prudence in military affairs the projectile came more and more into favor, and is now held in high esteem by the most courageous.

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prospect, n. An outlook, usually forbidding. An expectation, usually forbidden.

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Appetite, n. An instinct thoughtfully implanted by Providence as a solution to the labor question.

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WINE, n.Fermented grape-juice known to the Women's Christian Union as "liquor," sometimes as "rum." Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.

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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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