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The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
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Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.
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Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity.
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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions.
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Backbite. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you.
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Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.
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Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
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Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.
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A man is known by the company he organizes.
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Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.
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Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.
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