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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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War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.
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Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
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Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.
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To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.
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To be positive To be mistaken at the top of one's voice.
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To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.
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There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.
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There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.
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The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity
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The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
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The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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The future is that period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true, and our happiness is assured.
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The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling
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The covers of this book are too far apart
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The covers of this book are too far apart.
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Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
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Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized.
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Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.
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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret
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Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.
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Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.
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Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
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Quotation, n The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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PRESIDENT, n. The leading figure in a small group of men of whom ù and of whom only ù it is positively known that immense numbers of their countrymen did not want any of them for President
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Pray To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
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Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
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Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.
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