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ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.



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.



Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.



Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.



Destiny, n. A tyrant's authority for crime and fool's excuse for failure.



Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing



Opportunity is a favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.



Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.



SELFISH, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.



Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo



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



Custard: A detestable substance produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook.



Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.



OATH, n. In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the conscience by a penalty for perjury.



Romance is the fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of things as they are. In the novel the writer's thought is tethered to probability, but in romance it ranges at will over the entire region of the imagination







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