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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

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Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.

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For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin. His enemies have only to find it.

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gratitude, n. A sentiment lying midway between a benefit received and a benefit expected.

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RUBBISH, n. Worthless matter, such as the religions, philosophies, literatures, arts and sciences of the tribes infesting the regions lying due south from Boreaplas.

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

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Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

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REPUBLIC, n. A nation in which, the thing governing and the thing governed being the same, there is only a permitted authority to enforce an optional obedience.

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You cannot adopt politics as a profession and remain honest.

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Liar: A lawyer with a roving commission.

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A revolution is a violent change of mismanagement.

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Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.

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Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized.

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Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

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A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves.

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REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired; Refusals are graded in a descending scale of finality thus: the refusal absolute, the refusal condition, the refusal tentative and the refusal feminine. The last is called by some casuists the refusal assentive.

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LOSS, n. Privation of that which we had, or had not. Thus, in the latter sense, it is said of a defeated candidate that he "lost his election".

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SPOOKER, n. A writer whose imagination concerns itself with supernatural phenomena, especially in the doings of spooks.

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A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.

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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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