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Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
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What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.
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Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.
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Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
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Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.
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Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
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Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
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Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
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