RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
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Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
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Prescription: A physician’s guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
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LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss; yet when lost it is not missed.
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Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
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REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.
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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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Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
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Alliance – in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other’s pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
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Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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Laughter, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.
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PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another.
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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
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What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.
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