Acquaintance, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
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Barometer, n. An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.
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Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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Brain an apparatus with which we think we think.
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Calamities are of two kinds misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
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Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum
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Faith Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
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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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Marriage: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
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Painting The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.
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