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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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renown, n. A degree of distinction between notoriety and fame - a little more supportable than the one and a little more intolerable than the other. Sometimes it is conferred by an unfriendly and inconsiderate hand.

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Uncommon extension of the fear of death.

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In the algebra of psychology, X stands for a woman's heart.

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The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.

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TEDIUM, n. Ennui, the state or condition of one that is bored. Many fanciful derivations of the word have been affirmed, but so high an authority as Father Jape says that it comes from a very obvious source --the first words of the ancient Latin hymn _Te Deum Laudamus_. In this apparently natural derivation there is something that saddens.

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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

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

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mine, adj. Belonging to me if I can hold or seize it.

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Truth is so good a thing that falsehood can not afford to be without it.

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Introduction - a social ceremony invented by the devil for the gratification of his servants and the plaguing of his enemies.

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Justice is a commodity which in a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service.

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Habit: A shackle for the free.

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REAR, n. In American military matters, that exposed part of the army that is nearest to Congress.

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IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to be considered wrong, wicked, immoral.

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MISCREANT, n. A person of the highest degree of unworth. Etymologically, the word means unbeliever, and its present signification may be regarded as theology's noblest contribution to the development of our language.

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REPARATION, n. Satisfaction that is made for a wrong and deducted from the satisfaction felt in committing it.

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TECHNICALITY, n. In an English court a man named Home was tried for slander in having accused his neighbor of murder. His exact words were: "Sir Thomas Holt hath taken a cleaver and stricken his cook upon the head, so that one side of the head fell upon one shoulder and the other side upon the other shoulder." The defendant was acquitted by instruction of the court, the learned judges holding that the words did not charge murder, for they did not affirm the death of the cook, that being only an inference.

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OBLIVION, n. The state or condition in which the wicked cease from struggling and the dreary are at rest. Fame's eternal dumping ground.

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LIAR, n. One who tells an unpleasant truth.

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