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Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for.

Edible - good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.

Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.

Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.

Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible.

Doubt is the father of invention.

Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.

Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.

Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.