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MINISTER, n. An agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility. In diplomacy, an officer sent into a foreign country as the visible embodiment of his sovereign's hostility.

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Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.

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The best kind of onion soup is the simplest kind.

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PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that - stone walls do not a prison make.

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ASPERSE, v.t. Maliciously to ascribe to another vicious actions which one has not had the temptation and opportunity to commit.

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WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity.

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Economy, n. Purchasing the barrel of whiskey that you do not need for the price of the cow that you cannot afford.

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Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.

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

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Think twice before you speak to a friend in need

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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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INCOMPOSSIBLE, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are incompossible when the world of being has scope enough for one of them, but not enough for both - as Walt Whitman's poetry and God's mercy to man.

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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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QUEEN, n. A woman by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king, and through whom it is ruled when there is not.

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Self-restraint is indulgence of the propensity to forgo.

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applause, n. The echo of a platitude.

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