Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
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OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors.
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IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
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Heaven, n. A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound your own.
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REPUBLIC, n. A nation in which, the thing governing and the thing governed being the same, there is only a permitted authority to enforce an optional obedience.
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