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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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Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.

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PRESIDENCY, n. The greased pig in the field game of American politics

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Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.

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Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.

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Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy.

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Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing

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Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

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Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

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Painting The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

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Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.

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Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.

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Ocean: A body of water occupying 2/3 of a world made for man...who has no gills

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Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.

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Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

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Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.

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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.

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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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Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

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Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.

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Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

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Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.

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Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

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Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

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Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.

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Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.

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Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.

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It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.

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Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.

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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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