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Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live.
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A prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.
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Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.
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Forgetfulness. A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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A man is known by the company he organizes.
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Bore -- a person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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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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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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Confidante. One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.
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Abscond. To ''move'' in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.
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Future: That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
[ Future ]
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Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
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Admiration; is our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
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Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
[ Ambition ]
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Historian. A broad -- gauge gossip.
[ History ]
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An account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
[ History ]
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When in Rome, do as Rome does.
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Habit is a shackle for the free.
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