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

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Miss, n. A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense. Two are corruptions of Mistress, the other of Master. In the general abolition of social titles in this our country they miraculously escaped to plague us. If we must have them let us be consistent and give one to the unmarried man. I venture to suggest Mush, abbreviated to Mh.

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Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.

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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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ENOUGH, pro. All there is in the world if you like it.

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Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.

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One of the greatest of poets, Coleridge was one of the wisest of men, and it was not for nothing that he read us this parable. Let us have a little less of "hands across the sea," and a little more of that elemental distrust that is the security of nations. War loves to come like a thief in the night; professions of eternal amity provide the night.

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Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible.

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Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.

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The ghost is the outward and visible signs of an inward fear.

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Feast, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness.

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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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Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

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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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QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty and excellence of this incomparable adjective is unhappily denied to him who has the misfortune to know that the gentleman's name is pronounced Ke-ho-tay.

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He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.

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