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“Conservative. noun. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from a liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.”

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“I think I think, therefore, I think I am.”

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“Clergyman, n. - A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of bettering his temporal ones.”

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“Fork, n. An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.”

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“Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.”

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“Success is the one unpardonable sin against one's fellows.”

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“Politics: 'The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.'”

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“Saint, noun. A dead sinner revised and edited.”

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“Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego.”

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“Happiness, noun. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.”

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“History, n. An account mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.”

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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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“Dentist, n.: A Prestidigitator who, putting metal in one's mouth, pulls coins out of one's pockets.”

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“Optimist, n. A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.”

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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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“Opera, n. A play representing life in another world whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures, and no postures but attitudes.”

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“Christian, n. One who follows the teachings of Christ insofar as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin.”

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“Critic, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.”

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“Experience, n. The wisdom that enables us to recognize as an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.”

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“The covers of this book are too far apart.”

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