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BEGGAR, n. One who has relied on the assistance of his friends.

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IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.

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PESSIMISM- philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile.

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Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

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Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.

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INDISCRETION, n. The guilt of woman.

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Epitaph: An inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.

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LAOCOON, n. A famous piece of antique scripture representing a priest of that name and his two sons in the folds of two enormous serpents. The skill and diligence with which the old man and lads support the serpents and keep them up to their work have been justly regarded as one of the noblest artistic illustrations of the mastery of human intelligence over brute inertia.

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DEGRADATION, n. One of the stages of moral and social progress from private station to political preferment.

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Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.

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INTIMACY, n. A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual destruction.

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Children who have proven themselves to be incorrigible by the age of twelve should be quickly and quietly beheaded, lest they grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate the likeness of their being.

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Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else

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True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.

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The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.

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Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.

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