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Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego.

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Conversation: A fair for the display of the minor mental commodities, each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own wares to observe those of his neighbor.

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ACKNOWLEDGE, v.t. To confess. Acknowledgment of one another's faults is the highest duty imposed by our love of truth.

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SYCOPHANT- One who approaches Greatness on his belly so that he may not be commanded to turn and be kicked. He is sometimes an editor.

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PROVIDENTIAL, adj. Unexpectedly and conspicuously beneficial to the person so describing it.

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

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BRANDY, n. A cordial composed on one part thunder-and-lightning, one part remorse, two parts bloody murder, one part death-hell-and-the-grave and four parts clarified Satan.

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Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

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PROPHECY, n. The art and practice of selling one's credibility for future delivery.

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No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theater of war.

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IMPENITENCE, n. A state of mind intermediate in point of time between sin and punishment.

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DELUGE, n. A notable first experiment in baptism which washed away the sins (and sinners) of the world.

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PRESBYTERIAN, n. One who holds the conviction that the government authorities of the Church should be called presbyters.

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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

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International arbitration may be defined as the substitution of many burning questions for a smoldering one

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PHYSIOGNOMY, n. The art of determining the character of another by the resemblances and differences between his face and our own, which is the standard of excellence.

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Be as decent as you can. Don't believe without evidence. Treat things divine with marked respect — don't have anything to do with them. Do not trust humanity without collateral security; it will play you some scurvy trick. Remember that it hurts no one to be treated as an enemy entitled to respect until he shall prove himself a friend worthy of affection. Cultivate a taste for distasteful truths. And, finally, most important of all, endeavor to see things as they are, not as they ought to be.

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I think love is the most unbelievable, and critical, thing in civilization. Everything else is very mechanical and predictable, but love, you can't catch it.

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What a woman most admires in a man is distinction among men. What a man most admires in a woman is devotion to himself.

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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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