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In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office
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In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
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Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for.
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Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.
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I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats.
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Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
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Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
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Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.
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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
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Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.
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Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.
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Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.
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Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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Faith, noun. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
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Faith Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
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Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
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Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
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Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
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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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Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
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Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
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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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Edible, adj.: 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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Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.
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