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Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon.
~ Ambrose Bierce
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Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
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Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions.
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Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.
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Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
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Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.
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Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.
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Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
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Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
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Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.
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Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible.
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Doubt is the father of invention.
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Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.
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Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.
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Edible - good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
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24 June, 1842
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