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Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
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Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.
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Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
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The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.
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Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
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Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
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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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Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.
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To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.
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Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
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Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.
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