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When the book...

When the book...

When the book comes out it may hurt you -- but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I can only tell you...

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Nothing is more...

Nothing is more...

Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the manner in which he behaves toward fools.

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To be always...

To be always...

To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.

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Democracy is only...

Democracy is only...

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and...

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Human life is...

Human life is...

Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they...

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For happiness one...

For happiness one...

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of...

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No girl who...

No girl who...

No girl who is going to marry need bother to win a college degree; she just naturally becomes a Master of Arts and a...

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What a man...

What a man...

What a man calls his conscience is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or...

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Men are wise...

Men are wise...

Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for experience.

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Read over your...

Read over your...

Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it...

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I want death...

I want death...

I want death to find me planting my cabbages.

Source: ``To the Reader,'' in...

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Laughter is a...

Laughter is a...

Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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When humor goes,...

When humor goes,...

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Very often the...

Very often the...

Very often the quiet fellow has said all he knows.

Source:
-- Kin Hubbard, (Sep...

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AMNESTY, n. The...

AMNESTY, n. The...

AMNESTY, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to...

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AMBITION, n. An...

AMBITION, n. An...

AMBITION, n. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when...

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CHILDHOOD, n. The...

CHILDHOOD, n. The...

CHILDHOOD, n. The period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth -- two...

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CONDOLE, v.i. To...

CONDOLE, v.i. To...

CONDOLE, v.i. To show that bereavement is a smaller evil than sympathy.

Source: The...

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CONNOISSEUR, n. A...

CONNOISSEUR, n. A...

CONNOISSEUR, n. A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about anything...

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DEBAUCHEE, n. One...

DEBAUCHEE, n. One...

DEBAUCHEE, n. One who has so earnestly pursued pleasure that he has had the misfortune to overtake...

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