Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy.
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Childhood is both a chronological stage and a mental construct, an existential fact and a locus of desire, a mythological country continuously mapped by grownups in search of their subjectivity in another time and space.
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Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
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Duty is what one expects from others.
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Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities
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Every one has experienced how learning an appropriate name for what was dim and vague cleared up and crystallized the whole matter. Some meaning seems distinct almost within reach, but is elusive; it refuses to condense into definite form; the attaching of a word somehow (just how, it is almost impossible to say) puts limits around the meaning, draws it out from the void, makes it stand out as an entity on its own account.
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Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
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Network: Any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections [....]
Reticulated: Made of network; formed with interstitial vacuities.
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