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I have protracted...

I have protracted...

I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and...

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In my early...

In my early...

In my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as much at eighteen as...

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Many things difficult...

Many things difficult...

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

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-- Samuel...

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Ridicule is a...

Ridicule is a...

Ridicule is a kind of gangrene, which if it seizes one part of a character corrupts all the...

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Nobody can write...

Nobody can write...

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with...

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Sir, he throws...

Sir, he throws...

Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at...

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Questioning is not...

Questioning is not...

Questioning is not the mode of the conversation among gentlemen.

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OATS, 'n'. A...

OATS, 'n'. A...

OATS, 'n'. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the...

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There is nothing...

There is nothing...

There is nothing more likely to drive a man mad, than the being unable to get rid of the idea of the distinction...

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We are the...

We are the...

We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. . . . Even...

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DEBT, n. An...

DEBT, n. An...

DEBT, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slave driver.

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DISTANCE, n. The...

DISTANCE, n. The...

DISTANCE, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs, and...

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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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ELECTRICITY, n. The...

ELECTRICITY, n. The...

ELECTRICITY, n. The power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else....

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ENTHUSIASM, n. A...

ENTHUSIASM, n. A...

ENTHUSIASM, n. A distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of...

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ELOQUENCE, n. The...

ELOQUENCE, n. The...

ELOQUENCE, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift...

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FLAG, n. A...

FLAG, n. A...

FLAG, n. A colored rag borne above troops and hoisted on forts and ships. It appears to serve the same purpose as...

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FOLLY, n. That...

FOLLY, n. That...

FOLLY, n. That gift and faculty divine whose creative and controlling energy inspires Man's mind, guides his actions...

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HOMICIDE, n. The...

HOMICIDE, n. The...

HOMICIDE, n. The slaying of one human being by another. There are four kinds of homocide: felonious, excusable,...

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ILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably...

ILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably...

ILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably placed for the shafts of malice, envy and detraction.

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