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Self-restraint is indulgence of the propensity to forgo.

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SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness.

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

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SERIAL, n. A literary work, usually a story that is not true, creeping through several issues of a newspaper or magazine.

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plagiarism, n. A literary coincidence compounded of a discreditable priority and an honorable subsequence.

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MULTITUDE, n. A crowd; the source of political wisdom and virtue. In a republic, the object of the statesman's adoration.

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Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box.

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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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ADMINISTRATION, n. An ingenious abstraction in politics, designed to receive the kicks and cuffs due to the premier or president. A man of straw, proof against bad-egging and dead-catting.

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A leech who, having penetrated the shell of a turtle only to find that the creature has long been dead, deems it expedient to form a new attachment to a fresh turtle.

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POLICE, n. An armed force for protection and participation.

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A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves. He is like the lower end of a suspended chain; you can sway him slightly to the right or the left, but remove your hand and he falls into line with the other links.

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NECTAR, n. A drink served at banquets of the Olympian deities. The secret of its preparation is lost, but the modern Kentuckians believe that they come pretty near to a knowledge of its chief ingredient.

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Happiness has not to all the same name: to Youth she is known as the Future; Age knows her as the Dream.

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Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.

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Feast, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness.

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Molecule, n.: The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter. It is distinguished from the corpuscle, also the ultimate, indivisible unit of matter, by a closer resemblance to the atom, also the ultimate, indivisible unit of matter ... The ion differs from the molecule, the corpuscle and the atom in that it is an ion.

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Glutton- A person who escapes the evils of moderation by committing dyspepsia.

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NOVEL, n. A short story padded.

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Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

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