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Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

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Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.

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Barometer, n. An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.

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Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.

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Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.

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Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.

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Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.

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An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.

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Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.

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Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.

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Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.

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Alien - an American sovereign in his probationary state.

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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher

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Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.

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Admiration. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves

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Acquaintance, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

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Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.

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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

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Absurdity, n. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

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Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

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Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.

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A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.

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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

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Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

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When you doubt, abstain.

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Doubt is the father of invention.

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We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

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I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London.

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Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.

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