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Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
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The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
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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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Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.
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Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.
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Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.
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Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.
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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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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
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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 man of another man's choice, and is highly prized.
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Alien - an American sovereign in his probationary state.
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The future is that period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true, and our happiness is assured.
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Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.
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