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Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one.

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MONAD, n. The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter (see Molecule). The monad has body without bulk, and mind without manifestation - containing all the powers and possibilities needful to his evolution into a German philosopher . .

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There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.

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Miss: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense.

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Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

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We must stop chasing dollars, stop lying, stop cheating, stop ignoring art, literature, and all the refining agencies and instrumentalities of civilization.

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A large stone presented by the archangel Gabriel to the patriarch Abraham, and preserved at Mecca. The patriarch had perhaps asked the archangel for bread.

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I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London.

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The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.

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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, and the right to make that of another miserable by thrusting upon him an incalculable quantity of acquaintances; liberty, particularly the liberty to introduce persons to one another without first ascertaining if they are not already acquainted as enemies; and the pursuit of another's happiness with a running pack of strangers.

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MATERIAL, adj. Having an actual existence, as distinguished from an imaginary one. Important.

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A cheap and easy cynicism rails at everything. The master of the art accomplishes the formidable task of discrimination.

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HYDRA, n. A kind of animal that the ancients catalogued under many heads.

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Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.

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FLAG, n. A colored rag borne above troops and hoisted on forts and ships. It appears to serve the same purpose as certain signs that one sees and vacant lots in London

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Occident: The part of the world lying west (or east) of the Orient. It is largely inhabited by Christians, a powerful subtribe of the Hypocrites, whose principal industries are murder and cheating, which they are pleased to call war and commerce. These, also, are the principal industries of the Orient.

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Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.

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You cannot adopt politics as a profession and remain honest.

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Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

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