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SEINE, n. A kind of net for effecting an involuntary change of environment. For fish it is made strong and coarse, but women are more easily taken with a singularly delicate fabric weighted with small, cut stones.

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Truth - An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance.

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repose, v.i. To cease from troubling.

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gratitude, n. A sentiment lying midway between a benefit received and a benefit expected.

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A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.

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The circus a place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.

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New York is too strenuous for me; it gets on my nerves.

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A pessimist asked God for relief. Ah, you wish me to restore your hope and cheerfulness, said God. No, replied the petitioner, I wish you to create something that would justify them. The world is all created,said God, but you have overlooked something

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One of the greatest of poets, Coleridge was one of the wisest of men, and it was not for nothing that he read us this parable. Let us have a little less of "hands across the sea," and a little more of that elemental distrust that is the security of nations. War loves to come like a thief in the night; professions of eternal amity provide the night.

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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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SCRAP-BOOK, n. A book that is commonly edited by a fool. Many persons of some small distinction compile scrap-books containing whatever they happen to read about themselves or employ others to collect.

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HUMORIST, n. A plague that would have softened down the hoar austerity of Pharaoh's heart and persuaded him to dismiss Israel with his best wishes, cat-quick.

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Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.

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Habit: A shackle for the free.

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MARTYR, One who moves along the line of least reluctance to a desired death.

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While your friend holds you affectionately by both your hands, you are safe, for you can watch both his.

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A book which the Mohammedans foolishly believe to have been written by divine inspiration, but which Christians know to be a wicked imposture, contradictory to the Holy Scriptures.

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ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity.

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

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Congratulations is the civility of envy.

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