"Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient."

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"Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient."

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"Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm."

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"There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality."

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"Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. The basic of logic is the syllogism, consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion - thus:Major Premise: Sixty men can do a piece of work sixty times as quickly as one man.Minor Premise: One man can dig a post-hole in sixty seconds; Therefore-Conclusion: Sixty men can dig a post-hole in one second.This may be called syllogism arithmetical, in which, by combining logic and mathematics, we obtain a double certainty and are twice blessed."

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"This is only a record of broken and apparently unrelated memories, some of them as distinct and sequent as brilliant beads upon a thread, others remote and strange, having the character of crimson dreams with interspaces blank and black -- witch-fires glowing still and red in a great desolation."

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"Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone."

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"Ignoramus: a person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about."

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"Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name."

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"Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy."

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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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