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"Piracy n: commerce without its folly-swaddles - just as God made it."
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"Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another."
Crime
"The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations."
History
"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."
Art
"Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly."
Family
"Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly."
Trust
"It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better."
Change
"Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion."
Religion
"Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age."
Life
"What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends."
Patriotism
"Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance."
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"I don't want to see him alone. He says things that annoy me. He gives me good advice."
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"He [Old Mr. Turveydrop] was a fat old gentleman with a false complexion, false teeth, false whiskers, and a wig. He had a fur collar, and he had a padded breast to his coat, which only wanted a star or a broad blue ribbon to be complete. He was pinched in, and swelled out, and got up, and strapped down, as much as he could possibly bear."
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"The god's chosen beverage. Tremble before the horror of Diet Coke!"
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"On the Kite, the situation was being 'workshopped'. This is the means by which people who don't know anything get together to pool their ignorance."
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"Or he'd watch the news: more plagues, more famines, more floods, more insect or microbe or small-mammal outbreaks, more droughts, more chickenshit boy-soldier wars in distant countries. Why was everything so much like itself?"
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"I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do."
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"What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb.American novels, answered Lord Henry."
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"Now-a-days, men wear a fool's cap, and call it a liberty cap."
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"We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it."
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"Silena appeared out of the woods, her sword drawn. Her Aphrodite armour was pink and red, colour coordinated to match her clothes and makeup. She looked like Guerilla Warfare Barbie."
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