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Slang is a foul pool at which every dunce fills his bucket, and then sets up as a fountain.

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SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam.

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ANTIPATHY, n. The sentiment inspired by one's friend's friend.

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LUMINARY, One who throws light upon a subject; as an editor by not writing about it.

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SACRED, adj. Dedicated to some religious purpose; having a divine character; inspiring solemn thoughts or emotions; as... the Cow in India; the Crocodile, the Cat and the Onion of ancient Egypt.

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INTENTION, n. The mind's sense of the prevalence of one set of influences over another set; an effect whose cause is the imminence, immediate or remote, of the performance of an involuntary act.

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Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

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Patriotism: The first resort of a scoundrel.

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UBIQUITY, n. The gift or power of being in all places at one time, but not in all places at all times, which is omnipresence, an attribute of God and the luminiferous ether only.

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Loquacity, n. A disorder which renders the sufferer unable to curb his tongue when you wish to talk.

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RAREBIT n. A Welsh rabbit, in the speech of the humorless, who point out that it is not a rabbit. To whom it may be solemnly explained that the comestible known as toad-in-a-hole is really not a toad, and that riz-de-veau à la financière is not the smile of a calf prepared after the recipe of a she banker.

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A penny saved is a penny to squander.

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A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced.

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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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In this world one must have a name; it prevents confusion, even when it does not establish identity. Some, though, are known by numbers, which also seem inadequate distinctions.

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MONARCHICAL GOVERNMENT, n. Government.

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LECTURER, n. One with his hand in your pocket, his tongue in your ear and his faith in your patience.

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Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.

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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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SYCOPHANT- One who approaches Greatness on his belly so that he may not be commanded to turn and be kicked. He is sometimes an editor.

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