“Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.”
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“Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.”
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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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“Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.”
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“The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.”
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“Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the...”
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“Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.”
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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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“Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.”
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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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“Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.”
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“Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.”
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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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“What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.”
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“The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.”
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“Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.”
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“Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.”
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“Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.”
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“Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.”
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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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“Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.”
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