Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue

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Twice – Once too often.

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Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.

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Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

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Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.

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Prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.

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Mots clés opinion prejudice



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Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something he can see and feel.

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Admiration, n.: Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.

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Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor.

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As a means of dispensing formulated ignorance our boasted public school system is not without merit; it spreads out education sufficiently thin to give everyone enough to make him a more competent fool than he would have been without it...

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