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• RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
  Sharp, irresistible by mail or shield, By guard unparried as by flight unstayed, O serviceable Rumor, let me wield Against my enemy no other blade....
• ABSTAINER, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
  A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others....
• RELIGION, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
  "What is your religion my son?" inquired the Archbishop of Rheims....
• OPTIMIST, n. A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
  A pessimist applied to God for relief. "Ah, you wish me to restore your hope and cheerfulness," said God....
• LIBERTY, n. One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
  The rising People, hot and out of breath, Roared around the palace...
• Contempt, n. The feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed.
  -- Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary...
• INDECISION, n. The chief element of success; "for wherea
  aith Sir Thomas Brewbold, "there is but one way to do nothing and divers way to do something, whereof, to a surety, only one is the right way, it followeth that he who from indecision standeth still hath not so many chances of going astray as he who pusheth forwards" -- a most clear and satisfactory exposition on the matter....
• WEREWOLF, n. A wolf that was once, or is sometimes, a man.
  All werewolves are of evil disposition, having assumed a bestial form to gratify a beastial appetite, but some, transformed by sorcery, are as humane and is consistent with an acquired taste for human flesh....
• I am not concerned with pleasure, Commander, I am a warrior.
  "Even Klingons need love now and then." For what we would consider love, sir, I would need a Klingon woman....