Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
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Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
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Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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SCRAP-BOOK, n. A book that is commonly edited by a fool. Many persons of some small distinction compile scrap-books containing whatever they happen to read about themselves or employ others to collect.
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Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.
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