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The furrier gets the skins of more foxes than asses.

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

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You can effect a change of robbers every four years. Inestimable privilege - to pull off the glutted leech and attach the lean one! And you can not even choose among the lean leeches, but must accept those designated by the programmers and showmen who have the reptiles on tap!

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Self-restraint is indulgence of the propensity to forgo.

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Pun: A form of wit, to which wise men stoop and fools aspire

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Wisdom is known only by contrasting it with folly; by shadow only we perceive that all visible objects are not flat. Yet Philanthropos would abolish evil!

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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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Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.

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Religions are conclusions for which the facts of nature supply no major premises.

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AFFLICTION, n. An acclimatizing process preparing the soul for another and bitter world.

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BODY-SNATCHER, n. A robber of grave-worms. One who supplies the young physicians with that with which the old physicians have supplied the undertaker.

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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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NOMINATE, v. To designate for the heaviest political assessment. To put forward a suitable person to incur the mudgobbling and deadcatting of the opposition.

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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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PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic. The editor of an English magazine having received a letter pointing out the erroneous nature of his views and style, and signed "Perfection," promptly wrote at the foot of the letter: "I don't agree with you," and mailed it to Matthew Arnold.

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Book - Learning : The dunce's derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impertinent ignorance.

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