Absurdity — a statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
Experience — the wisdom that enables us to recognize as an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
Love — a temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease, like caries and many other ailments, is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient.
Back — that part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity.
Fiddle — an instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a horse's tail on the entrails of a cat.
Plan — to bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result.
Year — a period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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