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REALITY, n. The dream of a mad philosopher. That which would remain in the cupel if one should assay a phantom. The nucleus of a vacuum.

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Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.

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Mad; adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech, and action derived by the conformants from study of themselves; at odds with the majority; in short, unusual. It is noteworthy that persons are pronounced mad by officials destitute of evidence that they themselves are sane.

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QUEEN, n. A woman by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king, and through whom it is ruled when there is not.

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Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

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alone, adj. In bad company.

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An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.

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Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.

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Peace in international affairs: a period of cheating between periods of fighting

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CONSOLATION, n. The knowledge that a better man is more unfortunate than yourself.

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PHRENOLOGY, n. The science of picking the pocket through the scalp. It consists in locating and exploiting the organ that one is a dupe with.

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Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.

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Suddenly to change one's opinions and go over to another party. The most notable flop on record was that of Saul of Tarsus, who has been severely criticised as a turn-coat by some of our partisan journals.

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Doubt is the father of invention.

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Finance is the art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager

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Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit it is the first.

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RITUALISM, n. A Dutch Garden of God where He may walk in rectilinear freedom, keeping off the grass.

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To be comic is merely to be playful, but wit is a serious matter. To laugh at it is to confess that you do not understand.

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Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.

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Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.

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