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DISABUSE, v.t. To present your neighbor with another and better error than the one which he has deemed advantageous to embrace.

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Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.

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To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result.

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

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Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.

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Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

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Dance, v.i. To leap about to the sound of tittering music, preferably with arms about your neighbor's wife or daughter. There are many kinds of dances, but all those requiring the participation of the two sexes have two characteristics in common: they are conspicuously innocent, and warmly loved by the vicious.

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The money-getter who pleads his love of work has a lame defense, for love of work at money-getting is a lower taste than love of money.

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MUMMY, n. - an ancient Egyptian handy, too, in museums in gratifying the vulgar curiosity that serves to distinguish man from the lower animals.

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Dictionary: a malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic

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Here's to woman! Would that we could fold into her arms without falling into her hands.

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Honorable, adj.: Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, "the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.".

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VANITY, n. The tribute of a fool to the worth of the nearest ass.

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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

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In the algebra of psychology, X stands for a woman's heart.

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Woman absent is woman dead.

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VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit.

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picture, n. A representation in two dimensions of something wearisome in three.

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

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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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