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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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Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.

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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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EJECTION, n. An approved remedy for the disease of garrulity. It is also much used in cases of extreme poverty.

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

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WEATHER, n. The climate of an hour. A permanent topic of conversation among persons whom it does not interest, but who have inherited the tendency to chatter about it from naked arboreal ancestors whom it keenly concerned. The setting up of official weather bureaus and their maintenance in mendacity prove that even governments are accessible to suasion by the rude forefathers of the jungle.

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A penny saved is a penny to squander.

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Advice, the smallest current coin.

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Scriptures - The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.

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The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of remarkable Christian forbearance among men - were it not for a mawkish humanitarianism, coupled with imperfect digestive powers, we should devour our young, as Nature intended.

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LOGANIMITY, n. The disposition to endure injury with meek forbearance while maturing a plan of revenge.

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TRUCE, n. Friendship.

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Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

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Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.

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PLENIPOTENTIARY, adj. Having full power. A Minister Plenipotentiary is a diplomatist possessing absolute authority on condition that he never exert it.

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APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom.

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Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.

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GRAVITATION, n. The tendency of all bodies to approach one another with a strength proportioned to the quantity of matter they contain-the quantity of matter they contain being ascertained by the strength of their tendency to approach one another. This is a lovely and edifying illustration of how science, having made A the proof of B, makes B the proof of A.

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SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam.

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Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live.

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