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moral, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency.

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MOUSE, n. An animal which strews its path with fainting women.

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LECTURER, n. One with his hand in your pocket, his tongue in your ear and his faith in your patience.

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Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.

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LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used ... as a counterpoise to an argument of such weight that it turns the scale of debate the wrong way. An interesting fact in the chemistry of international controversy is that at the point of contact of two patriotisms lead is precipitated in great quantities.

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Every heart is the lair of a ferocious animal. The greatest wrong that you can put upon a man is to provoke him to let out his beast.

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TAKE, v.t. To acquire, frequently by force but preferably by stealth.

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An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.

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

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A violin is the revenge exacted by the intestines of a dead cat.

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POVERTY, n. A file provided for the teeth of the rats of reform. Its victims are distinguished by possession of all the virtues and by their faith in leaders seeking to conduct them into a prosperity where they believe these to be unknown.

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Contempt; the feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed.

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Convictions are variable; to be always consistent is to be sometimes dishonest.

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We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.

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Happiness has not to all the same name: to Youth she is known as the Future; Age knows her as the Dream.

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Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live.

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ILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably placed for the shafts of malice, envy and detraction.

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INK, n. A villainous compound of tannogallate of iron, gum-arabic, and water, chiefly used to facilitate the infection of idiocy and promote intellectual crime.

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MONOSYLLABIC, adj. Composed of words of one syllable . . . Commonly Saxon - that is to say, words of a barbarous people destitute of ideas and incapable of any but the most elementary sentiments and emotions.

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The Senate is a body of old men charged with high duties and misdemeanors.

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