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Homo Creator's testimony to the sound construction and fine finish of Deus Creatus. A popular form of abjection, having an element of pride.

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The bold and discerning writer who, recognizing the truth that language must grow by innovation if it grow at all, makes new words and uses the old in an unfamiliar sense has no following and is tartly reminded that 'it isn't in the dictionary' - although down to the time of the first lexicographer no author ever had used a word that was in the dictionary.

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repose, v.i. To cease from troubling.

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Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

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Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.

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Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.

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A bird in the hand is worth what it will bring.

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REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.

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Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.

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SACERDOTALIST, n. One who holds the belief that a clergyman is a priest. Denial of this momentous doctrine is the hardest challenge that is now flung into the teeth of the Episcopalian church by the Neo-Dictionarians.

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ILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably placed for the shafts of malice, envy and detraction.

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QUOTIENT, n. A number showing how many times a sum of money belonging to one person is contained in the pocket of another - usually about as many times as it can be got there.

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The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.

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Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.

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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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CEMETERY, n. An isolated suburban spot where mourners match lies, poets write at a target and stone-cutters spell for a wager.

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PRIMATE, n. The head of a church, especially a State church supported by involuntary contributions. The Primate of England is the Archbishop of Canterbury, an amiable old gentleman, who occupies Lambeth Palace when living and Westminster Abbey when dead. He is commonly dead.

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WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity.

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An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases the assassins.

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MOUTH, n. In man, the gateway to the soul; in woman, the outlet of the heart.

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