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NIRVANA- In the Buddhist religion, a state of pleasurable annihilation awarded to the wise, particularly to those wise enough to understand it.

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Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.

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A revolution is a violent change of mismanagement.

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Youth looks forward, for nothing is behind! Age backward, for nothing is before.

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Die: To stop sinning suddenly.

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I keep a conscience uncorrupted by religion, a judgment undimmed by politics and patriotism, a heart untainted by friendships and sentiments unsoured by animosities.

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RAREBIT n. A Welsh rabbit, in the speech of the humorless, who point out that it is not a rabbit. To whom it may be solemnly explained that the comestible known as toad-in-a-hole is really not a toad, and that riz-de-veau à la financière is not the smile of a calf prepared after the recipe of a she banker.

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Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.

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Something that is supposed to typify or stand for something else. Many symbols are mere "survivals" - as funereal urns carved on memorial monuments. We cannot stop making them, but we can give them a name that conceals our helplessness.

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Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

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Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

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The wife, or bitter half.

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PYRRHONISM- An ancient philosophy, named for its inventor. It consisted of an absolute disbelief in everything but Pyrrhonism. Its modern professors have added that.

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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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Cynicism is that blackguard defect of vision which compels us to see the world as it is, instead of as it should be.

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Self-evident, adj. Evident to one's self and to nobody else.

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adherent, n. A follower who has not yet obtained all that he expects to get.

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PITIFUL, adj. The state of an enemy or opponent after an imaginary encounter with oneself.

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repose, v.i. To cease from troubling.

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OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard.

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