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RATTLESNAKE, n. Our prostrate brother, "Homo ventrambulans".

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PILLORY, n. A mechanical device for inflicting personal distinction - prototype of the modern newspaper conducted by persons of austere virtues and blameless lives.

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BRAIN, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think. That which distinguishes the man who is content to be something from the man who wishes to do something. A man of great wealth, or one who has been pitchforked into high station, has commonly such a headful of brain that his neighbors cannot keep their hats on. In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, brain is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

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Every heart is the lair of a ferocious animal. The greatest wrong that you can put upon a man is to provoke him to let out his beast.

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HURRICANE, n. An atmospheric demonstration once very common but now generally abandoned for the tornado and cyclone. The hurricane is still in popular use in the West Indies and is preferred by certain old- fashioned sea-captains.

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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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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

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aim, n. The task we set our wishes to.

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

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Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

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CONSOLATION, n. The knowledge that a better man is more unfortunate than yourself.

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Definition: CONNOISSEUR, n. A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else.

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gratitude, n. A sentiment lying midway between a benefit received and a benefit expected.

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Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.

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Income is the natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability.

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POETRY, n. A form of expression peculiar to the Land beyond the Magazines.

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