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applause, n. The echo of a platitude.

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War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

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Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

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

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Human nature is pretty well balanced; for every lacking virtue there is a rough substitute that will serve at a pinch--as cunning is the wisdom of the unwise, and ferocity the courage of the coward.

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

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X, n. In our alphabet being a needless letter has an added invincibility to the attacks of the spelling reformers, and like them, will doubtless last as long as the language.

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Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.

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LAOCOON, n. A famous piece of antique scripture representing a priest of that name and his two sons in the folds of two enormous serpents. The skill and diligence with which the old man and lads support the serpents and keep them up to their work have been justly regarded as one of the noblest artistic illustrations of the mastery of human intelligence over brute inertia.

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Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

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When among the graves of thy fellows, walk with circumspection; thine own is open at thy feet.

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Platitude: All that is mortal of a departed truth.

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Pun: A form of wit, to which wise men stoop and fools aspire

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PRESIDENT, n. The leading figure in a small group of men of whom - and of whom only - it is positively known that immense numbers of their countrymen did not want any of them for President.

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Miss: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense.

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WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard.

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ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.

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REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it./ Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it)/ At work upon a book, and so read out of it/ The qualities that you have first read into it.

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Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.

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The best kind of onion soup is the simplest kind.

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