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To renounce an honor for an advantage. To renounce an advantage for a greater advantage.

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A man is known by the company he organizes.

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You don't have to be stupid to be a Christian, ... but it probably helps.

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

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Nothing is more logical than persecution. Religious tolerance is a kind of infidelity.

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The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of a remarkable Christian forebearance among men.

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INJUSTICE, n. A burden which of all those that we load upon others and carry ourselves is lightest in the hands and heaviest upon the back.

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Responsibility, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.

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RETRIBUTION, n. A rain of fire-and-brimstone that falls alike upon the just and such of the unjust as have not procured shelter by evicting them.

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Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

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Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.

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Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else

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He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity. A fool is a natural proselyte, but he must be caught young, for his convictions, unlike those of the wise, harden with age.

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ZIGZAG, v.t. To move forward uncertainly, from side to side, as one carrying the white man's burden.

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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

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MANICHEISM, n. The ancient Persian doctrine of an incessant warfare between Good and Evil. When Good gave up the fight the Persians joined the victorious Opposition.

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Here's to woman! Would that we could fold into her arms without falling into her hands.

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LIVER, n. A large red organ thoughtfully provided by nature to be bilious with. The sentiments and emotions which every literary anatomist now knows to haunt the heart were anciently believed to infest the liver; and even Gascoygne, speaking of the emotional side of human nature, calls it "our hepaticall parte." It was at one time considered the seat of life; hence its name- liver, the thing we live with.

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Don't steal; thou'lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

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A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relation to literature that the panorama bears to art. As it is too long to be read at a sitting the impressions made by its successive parts are successively effaced, as in the pa

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