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Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible.

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Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.

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Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.

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Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.

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Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

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Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate

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Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.

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Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

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Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.

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Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.

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Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.

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Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.

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Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.

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Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.

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Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon.

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Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

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Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

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Confidante: One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.

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Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.

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Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum

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Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

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Cabbage A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

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Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

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Calamities are of two kinds misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

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Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

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Brain an apparatus with which we think we think.

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Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.

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Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.

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Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.

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Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.

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