CARTESIAN, adj. Relating to Descartes, author of 'Cogito ergo sum' to demonstrate the reality of human existence. The dictum might be improved 'Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum' 'I think that I think, therefore I think that I am' as close an approach.
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INDECISION, n. The chief element of success . . . for he who from indecision standeth still hath not so many chances of going astray as he who pusheth forwards. ( Sir Thomas Brewbold)
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END, n. The position farthest removed on either hand from the Interlocutor.
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