"Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness."

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"The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness."

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"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."

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"Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure."

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"Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity."

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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

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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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"Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience."

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"Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues."

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

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