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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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Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

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PYRRHONISM- An ancient philosophy, named for its inventor. It consisted of an absolute disbelief in everything but Pyrrhonism. Its modern professors have added that.

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When God makes a beautiful woman, the devil opens a new register.

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A person of greater enterprise than discretion, who in embracing an opportunity has formed an unfortunate attachment.

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Strive not for singularity in dress; Fools have the more and men of sense the less. To look original is not worth while, But be in mind a little out of style.

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Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego.

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Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

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TRICHINOSIS, n. The pig's reply to proponents of porcophagy.

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Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.

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WRATH, n. Anger of a superior quality and degree, appropriate to exalted characters and momentous occasions; as, "the wrath of God," "the day of wrath," etc. . . .

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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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HERMIT, n. A person whose vices and follies are not sociable.

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CONGRESS, n. A body of men who meet to repeal laws.

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Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

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HIBERNATE, v. i. To pass the winter season in domestic seclusion. There have been many singular popular notions about the hibernation of various animals. Many believe that the bear hibernates during the whole winter and subsists by mechanically sucking its paws. It is admitted that it comes out of its retirement in the spring so lean that it has to try twice before it can cast a shadow.

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COMMERCE, n. A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of C, and for compensation B picks the pocket of D of money belonging to E.

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ARTLESSNESS, n. A certain engaging quality to which women attain by long study and severe practice upon the admiring male, who is pleased to fancy it resembles the candid simplicity of his young.

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IMPALE, v.t. In popular usage, to pierce with any weapon which remains fixed in the wound . . . . properly, to put to death by thrusting an upright sharp stake into the body, the victim being left in a sitting position.

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Every patriot believes his country better than any other country . . . In its active manifestation-it is fond of killing-patriotism would be well enough if it were simply defensive, but it is also aggressive . . . Patriotism deliberately and with folly aforethought subordinates the interests of a whole to the interests of a part . . . Patriotism is fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave and blind as a stone.

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