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Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live.
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Bride. A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
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Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Marriage
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Fidelity. A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage. Marriage
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Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two. Marriage
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Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
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A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
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Quoting: the act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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History: An account mostly false, of events, unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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Insurance: An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.
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Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence. Intelligence
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Alien. An American sovereign in his probationary state.
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History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. History
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Habit is a shackle for the free.
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A funeral is a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker.
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Edible. Good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
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Destiny. A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
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Enthusiasm. A distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.
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An egotist is a person interested in himself than in me!
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Egotist. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than me.
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Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious. Education
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Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. Education
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Opiate. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard.
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Duty. That which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.
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Divorce. A resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
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Physician -- One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.
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