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Appetite, n. An instinct thoughtfully implanted by Providence as a solution to the labor question.

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CRAYFISH, n. A small crustacean very much resembling the lobster, but less indigestible.

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FEMALE, n. One of the opposing, or unfair, sex.

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CALAMITY, n. A more than commonly plain and unmistakable reminder that the affairs of this life are not of our own ordering. Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

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The ghost is the outward and visible signs of an inward fear.

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Magpie, n.: A bird whose theivish disposition suggested to someone that it might be taught to talk.

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ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude . . .

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Aristocrats: n. fellows that wear downy hats and clean shirts - guilty of education and suspected of bank accounts.

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PUSH, n. One of the two things mainly conducive to success, especially in politics. The other is Pull.

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MERCY, n. An attribute beloved of detected offenders.

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He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity. A fool is a natural proselyte, but he must be caught young, for his convictions, unlike those of the wise, harden with age.

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Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.

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ZANY, n. A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the _buffone_, or clown, and was therefore the ape of an ape; for the clown himself imitated the serious characters of the play. The zany was progenitor to the specialist in humor, as we to-day have the unhappiness to know him. In the zany we see an example of creation; in the humorist, of transmission. Another excellent specimen of the modern zany is the curate, who apes the rector, who apes the bishop, who apes the archbishop, who apes the devil.

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MAGNETISM, n. Something acting upon a magnet. The two definitions immediately foregoing are condensed from the works of one thousand eminent scientists, who have illuminated the subject with a great white light, to the inexpressible advancement of human knowledge.

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MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer does not name them.

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Disobey n:To celebrate with an appropriate ceremony the maturity of a command

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PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another.

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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

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

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NIRVANA- In the Buddhist religion, a state of pleasurable annihilation awarded to the wise, particularly to those wise enough to understand it.

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