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No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.
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A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.
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Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.
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