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The aim of...

The aim of...

The aim of medicine is surely not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard and rescue them from the consequences of...

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Sorrow: a kind...

Sorrow: a kind...

Sorrow: a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour...

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The most fatal...

The most fatal...

The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for...

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That observation which...

That observation which...

That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than...

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There is a...

There is a...

There is a certain race of men that either imagine it their duty, or make it their amusement, to hinder the reception...

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There is no...

There is no...

There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow.

Source: Letter, 12 April 1781,...

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To do nothing...

To do nothing...

To do nothing is in every man's power.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase,...

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While grief is...

While grief is...

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement...

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Don't part company...

Don't part company...

Don't part company with your ideals. They are anchors in a storm.

Source: In...

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People seem to...

People seem to...

People seem to enjoy things more when they know that a lot of other people have been left out on the...

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It seems to...

It seems to...

It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes...

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COMMERCE, n. A...

COMMERCE, n. A...

COMMERCE, n. A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of C, and for compensation B picks the pocket...

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To act is...

To act is...

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

Source: In...

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OLYMPIAN, adj. Relating...

OLYMPIAN, adj. Relating...

OLYMPIAN, adj. Relating to a mountain in Thessaly, once inhabited by gods, now a repository of yellowing newspapers,...

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PRESENTABLE, adj. Hideously...

PRESENTABLE, adj. Hideously...

PRESENTABLE, adj. Hideously appareled after the manner of the time and place.

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POKER, n. A...

POKER, n. A...

POKER, n. A game said to be played with cards for some purpose to this lexicographer...

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QUORUM, n. A...

QUORUM, n. A...

QUORUM, n. A sufficient number of members of a deliberative body to have their own way and their own way of having it....

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DISCRIMINATE, v.i. To...

DISCRIMINATE, v.i. To...

DISCRIMINATE, v.i. To note the particulars in which one person or thing is, if possible, more objectionable than...

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EXTINCTION, n. The...

EXTINCTION, n. The...

EXTINCTION, n. The raw material out of which theology created the future state.

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EXISTENCE, n. A...

EXISTENCE, n. A...

EXISTENCE, n. A transient, horrible, fantastic dream,
Wherein is nothing yet all things do seem:
From which...

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