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Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

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When among the graves of thy fellows, walk with circumspection; thine own is open at thy feet.

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An auctioneer is a man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.

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plagiarism, n. A literary coincidence compounded of a discreditable priority and an honorable subsequence.

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RASCALITY, n. Stupidity militant. The activity of a clouded intellect.

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RUIN, v. To destroy. Specifically, to destroy a maid's belief in the virtue of maids.

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NOTORIETY, n. The fame of one's competitor for public honors. The kind of renown most accessible and acceptable to mediocrity. A Jacob's-ladder leading to the vaudeville stage, with angels ascending and descending.

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EXECUTIVE, n. An officer of the Government, whose duty it is to enforce the wishes of the legislative power until such time as the judicial department shall be pleased to pronounce them invalid and of no effect.

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Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum -- "I think that I think, therefore I think that I am;" as close an approach to certainty as any philosopher has yet made.

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A bad workman quarrels with the man who calls him that.

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KILT, n. A costume sometimes worn by Scotchmen in America and Americans in Scotland.

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Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

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PLEBEIAN, n. An ancient Roman who in the blood of his country stained nothing but his hands. Distinguished from the Patrician, who was a saturated solution.

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The bold and discerning writer who, recognizing the truth that language must grow by innovation if it grow at all, makes new words and uses the old in an unfamiliar sense has no following and is tartly reminded that 'it isn't in the dictionary' - although down to the time of the first lexicographer no author ever had used a word that was in the dictionary.

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HOMOEOPATHY, n. A school of medicine midway between Allopathy and Christian Science. To the last both the others are distinctly inferior, for Christian Science will cure imaginary diseases, and they can not.

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Funeral: a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears.

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