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FICKLENESS, n. The iterated satiety of an enterprising affection.

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A penny saved is a penny to squander.

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LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.

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Pantheism, n. The doctrine that everything is God, in contradistinction to the doctrine that God is everything.

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PARDON, v. To remit a penalty and restore to the life of crime. To add to the lure of crime the temptation of ingratitude.

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Even the laws of justice themselves cannot subsist without mixture of injustice.

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CANNON, n. An instrument employed in the rectification of national boundaries.

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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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I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.

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New York is too strenuous for me; it gets on my nerves.

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God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past.

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FRYING-PAN, n. One part of the penal apparatus employed in that punitive institution, a woman's kitchen. The frying-pan was invented by Calvin, and by him used in cooking span-long infants that had died without baptism; and observing one day the horrible torment of a tramp who had incautiously pulled a fried babe from the waste-dump and devoured it, it occurred to the great divine to rob death of its terrors by introducing the frying-pan into every household in Geneva. Thence it spread to all corners of the world, and has been of invaluable assistance in the propagation of his sombre faith.

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Brain, v. [as in "to brain"]: To rebuke bluntly, but not pointedly; to dispel a source of error in an opponent.

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VANITY, n. The tribute of a fool to the worth of the nearest ass.

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Advice, the smallest current coin.

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Boundary, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of another.

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