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Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.
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Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
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Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
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Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
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Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.
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Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
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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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Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.
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Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.
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Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.
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Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.
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