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"Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable."
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"After a fellow gets famous it doesn't take long for someone to bob up that used to sit by him in school."

"Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns."

"I'd probably be famous now if I wasn't such a good waitress."

"I felt no pressure that my grandfather was famous and my uncle was famous."

"I try to become more humble and more myself with every year. There was a while when I got famous where I was so confused and my head was spinning."
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"Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors."

"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."

"Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others."

"Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt."

"Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white."

"Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable."

"Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country."
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