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Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.

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Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.

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History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

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

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