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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

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BELLADONNA, n. In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.

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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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Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.

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Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are not as they ought to be.

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AMNESTY, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.

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Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

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, n. Garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

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Birth, n.: The first and direst of all disasters.

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Deliverance of sinners from the penalty of their sin through their murder of the deity against whom they sinned. The doctrine of Redemption is the fundamental mystery of our holy religions, and whoso believeth in it shall not perish, but have everlas...

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

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HOMICIDE, n. The slaying of one human being by another. There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slain whether he fell by one kind or another -- the classifi...

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MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be. His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent ra...

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Inhumanity, n. One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity.

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To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner, confessedly unworthy.

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The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.

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Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.

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Hash, x. There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is. Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable. Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, howe...

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