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DEPENDENT, adj. Reliant upon another's generosity for the support which you are not in a position to exact from his fears.

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Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.

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RETRIBUTION, n. A rain of fire-and-brimstone that falls alike upon the just and such of the unjust as have not procured shelter by evicting them.

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Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions.

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DIARY, n. A daily record of that part of one's life, which he can relate to himself without blushing.

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TRUTHFUL, adj. Dumb and illiterate.

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PHOTOGRAPH, n. A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. It is a little better than the work of an Apache, but not quite so good as that of a Cheyenne.

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Contempt; the feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed.

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A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relation to literature that the panorama bears to art. As it is too long to be read at a sitting the impressions made by its successive parts are successively effaced, as in the pa

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Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.

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Coronation: The ceremony of investing a sovereign with the outward and visible signs of his divine right to be blown skyhigh with a dynamite bomb.

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One engaged in a commercial pursuit. A commercial pursuit is one in which the thing pursued is a dollar.

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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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A nation that will not enforce its laws has no claim to the respect and allegiance of its people.

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LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure.

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PHYSIOGNOMY, n. The art of determining the character of another by the resemblances and differences between his face and our own, which is the standard of excellence.

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Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.

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Clarinet n. An instrument of torture operated by a person with cotton in his ears. There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two clarinets.

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You cannot adopt politics as a profession and remain honest.

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DELUGE, n. A notable first experiment in baptism which washed away the sins (and sinners) of the world.

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