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Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.



Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.



Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.



Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.



RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue.



Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego.



REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is not inconsistent with continuity of sin.



Perseverance, n. A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.



INJUSTICE, n. A burden which of all those that we load upon others and carry ourselves is lightest in the hands and heaviest upon the back.



Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.



Forgetfulness. A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.



What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.



GRAMMAR, n. A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet for the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction.



Reconsider, v. To seek a justification for a decision already made.



MINISTER, n. An agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility. In diplomacy, an officer sent into a foreign country as the visible embodiment of his sovereign's hostility.







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