Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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PLENIPOTENTIARY, adj. Having full power. A Minister Plenipotentiary is a diplomatist possessing absolute authority on condition that he never exert it.
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Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.
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EXPOSTULATION, n. One of the many methods by which fools prefer to lose their friends.
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