"Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure."

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

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"Consult. To seek another's approval of a course already decided on."

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"Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit."

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"Forgetfulness. A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience."

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

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

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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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"Divorce. A resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries."

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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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"Opiate. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard."

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"Duty. That which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire."

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"Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding."

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"Egotist. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than me."

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"An egotist is a person interested in himself than in me!"

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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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"Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age."

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"Experience. The wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced."

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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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"Fidelity. A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed."

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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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"To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense."

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"A funeral is a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker."

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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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"The gambling known as business looks with severe disfavor on the business known as gambling."

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