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optimism, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong. It is held with greatest tenacity by those most accustomed to the mischance of falling into adversity, and is most acceptably expounded with disproof - an intellectual disorder, yielding to no treatment but death. It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious.

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Example is better than following it.

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REVOLUTION, n. A bursting of the boilers which usually takes place when the safety valve of public discussion is closed.

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RIMER, n. A poet regarded with indifference or disesteem.

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GOOD, adj. Sensible, madam, to the worth of this present writer. Alive, sir, to the advantages of letting him alone.

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

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PUSH, n. One of the two things mainly conducive to success, especially in politics. The other is Pull.

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Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon.

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Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.

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Quill: An instrument of torture yielded by a goose and commonly weilded by as ass.

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The Senate is a body of old men charged with high duties and misdemeanors.

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

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NOUMENON, n. That which exists, as distinguished from that which merely seems to exist, the latter being a phenomenon. The noumenon is a bit difficult to locate; it can be apprehended only by a process of reasoning - which is a phenomenon.

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That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity

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DISOBEDIENCE, n. The silver lining to the cloud of servitude.

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Botany, n. The science of vegetables - those that are not good to eat, as well as those that are. It deals largely with their flowers, which are commonly badly designed, inartistic in color, and ill-smelling.

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