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Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
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Belief
Optimism
Doctrine
Ugly
Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
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Body
Man
Water
World
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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Independence
Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.
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Patience
Planning
Revenge
Worth
Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
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Marriage
Community
State
Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.
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World
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Marriage
Insanity
Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.
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Men
Doubt
Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.
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Society
Control
Earth
Land
Ownership
Property
Theory
Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.
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Opinion
Prejudice
Support
Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
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Laws
Universe
Unworthy
Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.
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Positive
Voice
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
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Principles
Public
Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
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Ignorance
Learning
Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
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Imagination
Possessions