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RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue.

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Immigrant: An unenlightened person who thinks one country better than another.

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SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar "tumble-bug." It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact that God knew why giving it its peculiar sanctity.

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GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These [quills] when inked and drawn mechanically across paper by a person called an "author," there results a very fair and accurate transcript of the fowl's thought and feeling.

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AFFLICTION, n. An acclimatizing process preparing the soul for another and bitter world.

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SACERDOTALIST, n. One who holds the belief that a clergyman is a priest. Denial of this momentous doctrine is the hardest challenge that is now flung into the teeth of the Episcopalian church by the Neo-Dictionarians.

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Doubt is the father of invention.

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What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

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In forgiving an injury be somewhat ceremonious, lest your magnanimity be construed as indifference.

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ACCOMPLICE, n. One associated with another in a crime, having guilty knowledge and complicity, as an attorney who defends a criminal, knowing him guilty. This view of the attorney's position in the matter has not hitherto commanded the assent of attorneys, no one having offered them a fee for assenting.

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Men who expect universal peace through invention of destructive weapons of war are no wiser than one who, noting the improvement of agricultural implements, should prophesy an end to the tilling of the soil.

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Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.

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Self-restraint is indulgence of the propensity to forgo.

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

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Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.

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PREFERENCE, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief that one thing is better than another.

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PIRACY, n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it.

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PROBOSCIS, n. The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of the knife-and-fork that Evolution has as yet denied him. For purposes of humor it is popularly called a trunk.

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LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.

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LIMB, n. The branch of a tree or the leg of an American woman.

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