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Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.

It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.

Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.