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“Religion : fille de l'espérance et de la peur; elle explique à l'ignorance la nature de l'inconnaissable.”

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“Frontière : en géographie politique, ligne imaginaire entre deux nations, séparant les droits imaginaires de l'une des droits imaginaires de l'autre.”

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“Abstinent : personne faible qui cède à la tentation de se refuser un plaisir.”

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“Présidence : le cochon le plus gras du champ de la politique.”

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“Patience : forme mineure de désespoir, déguisée en vertu.”

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“Tableaux : représentations en deux dimensions des choses inintéressantes en trois.”

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“Citation : Action de répéter de façon erronée les mots d'un autre.”

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“Évangéliste : porteur de bonnes nouvelles, particulièrement (dans un sens religieux) de celles qui assurent notre propre salut et la damnation de nos voisins.”

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“Immigrant : individu mal informé qui pense qu'un pays est meilleur qu'un autre.”

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“Politesse : forme la plus acceptable de l'hypocrisie.”

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“Raison : propension au préjugé.”

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“Irréfléchi : insensible à la valeur de votre conseil.”

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“Connaissance : c'est quelqu'un qu'on connaît assez pour lui emprunter de l'argent, mais pas assez pour lui en prêter”

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“Égoïste : une personne de mauvais goût, plus intéressée à elle-même qu'à moi.”

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“Bien-être : état d'esprit produit par la contemplation des ennuis d'autrui.”

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“Land, n. A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure. Carried to its logical conclusion, it means that some have the right to prevent others from living; for the right to own implies the right exclusively to occupy; and in fact laws of trespass are enacted wherever property in land is recognized. It follows that if the whole area of terra firma is owned by A, B and C, there will be no place for D, E, F and G to be born, or, born as trespassers, to exist.”

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“Infancy, n. The period of our lives when, according to Wordsworth, 'Heaven lies about us.' The world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.”

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“To be comic is merely to be playful, but wit is a serious matter. To laugh at it is to confess that you do not understand.”

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Source: Epigrams, p. 346

“There was never a genius who was not thought a fool until he disclosed himself; whereas he is a fool then only.”

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Source: Epigrams, p. 345

“Advice, n. The smallest current coin.”

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“Freebooter, n. A conqueror in a small way of business, whose annexations lack of the sanctifying merit of magnitude.”

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“Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.”

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“Absent, adj. Peculiarly exposed to the tooth of detraction; vilifed; hopelessly in the wrong; superseded in the consideration and affection of another.”

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“Insurrection, n. An unsuccessful revolution. Disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.”

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“The most intolerant advocate is he who is trying to convince himself.”

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Source: Epigrams, p. 367

“Year, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.”

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“Zeal, n. A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced. A passion that goeth before a sprawl.”

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“Along the road of life are many pleasure resorts, but think not that by tarrying in them you will take more days to the journey. The day of your arrival is already recorded.”

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Source: Epigrams, p. 364

“Helpmate, n. A wife, or bitter half.”

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“Resign, v. To renounce an honor for an advantage. To renounce an advantage for a greater advantage.”

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“Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.”

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Source: Epigrams, p. 358

“To men a man is but a mind. Who cares
What face he carries or what form he wears?
But woman's body is the woman. O,
Stay thou, my sweetheart, and do never go,
But heed the warning words the sage hath said:
A woman absent is a woman dead.”

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“Electricity, n. The cause of all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else. It is the same thing as lightning, and its famous attempt to strike Dr. Franklin is one of the most picturesque incidents in that great and good man's career.”

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“Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech, and action derived by the conformants from study of themselves; at odds with the majority; in short, unusual. It is noteworthy that persons are pronounced mad by officials destitute of evidence that they themselves are sane.”

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“Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy.”

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“The money-getter who pleads his love of work has a lame defense, for love of work at money-getting is a lower taste than love of money.”

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Source: Epigrams, p. 361

“Abnormal, adj. Not conforming to standards in matters of thought and conduct. To be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested”

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“Wisdom is known only by contrasting it with folly; by shadow only we perceive that all visible objects are not flat. Yet Philanthropos would abolish evil!”

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Source: Epigrams, p. 373

“If you want to read a perfect book there is only one way: write it.”

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Source: Epigrams, p. 353

“This is a simple story of a battle; such a tale as may be told by a soldier who is no writer to a reader who is no soldier.”

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Source: What I Saw At Shiloh (1881), I

“Incompossible, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are incompossible when the world of being has scope enough for one of them, but not enough for both — as Walt Whitman's poetry and God's mercy to man.”

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“Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.”

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“Convictions are variable; to be always consistent is to be sometimes dishonest.”

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Source: Epigrams, p. 367

“To the eye of failure success is an accident.”

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Source: Epigrams, p. 373

“Backbite, v. t. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you.”

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