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Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

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CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another.

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RECONCILIATION, n. A suspension of hostilities. An armed truce for the purpose of digging up the dead.

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Monsieur Franqulin, inventor of electricity. This illustrious savant, after having made several voyages around the world, died on the Sandwich Islands and was devoured by savages, of whom not a single fragment was ever recovered.

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REVOLUTION, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. . . . the substitution of the rule of an Administration for that of a Ministry, whereby the welfare and happiness of the people were advanced a full half-inch.

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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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INTERPRETER, n. One who enables two persons of different languages to understand each other by repeating to each what it would have been to the interpreter's advantage for the other to have said.

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A subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship . . . . [H]is master works for the means wherewith to purchase the idle wag of the Solomonic tail, seasoned with a look of tolerant recognition.

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A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.

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Fashion, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.

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Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

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

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EXECUTIVE, n. An officer of the Government, whose duty it is to enforce the wishes of the legislative power until such time as the judicial department shall be pleased to pronounce them invalid and of no effect.

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GRAPESHOT, n. An argument which the future is preparing in answer to the demands of American Socialism.

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MACE, n. A staff of office signifying authority. Its form, that of a heavy club, indicates its original purpose and use in dissuading from dissent.

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