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Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.
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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
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I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats.
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Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.
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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
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Edible - good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
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Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
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Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
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Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible.
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In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
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Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.
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Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
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Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
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