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The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.
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An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.
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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
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Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
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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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Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
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Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
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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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Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.
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Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
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