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A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
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A prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.
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A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
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An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.
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Beauty, the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
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Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
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Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
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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.
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Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
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Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.
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Saint : a dead sinner revised and edited.
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Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
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The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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