ITCH, n. The patriotism of a Scotchman.
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PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that 'Stone walls do not a prison make,' but a combination of the stone wall, the political parasite and the moral instructor is no garden of sweets.
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Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.
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