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MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.
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MATERIAL, adj. Having an actual existence, as distinguished from an imaginary one. Important.
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WHEAT, n. A cereal from which a tolerably good whisky can be made . . . also for bread. The French are said to eat more bread per capita of population than any other people, which is natural, for only they know how to make the stuff palatable.
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BABE or BABY, n. A misshapen creature of no particular age, sex, or condition, chiefly remarkable for the violence of the sympathies and antipathies it excites in others, itself without sentiment or emotion.
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alone, adj. In bad company.
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The circus a place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.
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repose, v.i. To cease from troubling.
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Uncommon extension of the fear of death.
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ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.
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READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in dialect and humor in slang.
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DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set.
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mine, adj. Belonging to me if I can hold or seize it.
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ILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably placed for the shafts of malice, envy and detraction.
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OBLIVION, n. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy. A dormitory without an alarm clock.
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PREDESTINATION, n. The doctrine that all things occur according to programme. . . . not be confused with that of foreordination. The difference is great enough to have deluged Christendom with ink, to say nothing of the gore.
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SORCERY, n. The ancient prototype and forerunner of political influence. It was, however, deemed less respectable and sometimes was punished by torture and death.
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pleasure, n. The least hateful form of dejection.
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NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient.
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To seek a justification for a decision already made.
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MUGWUMP, n. In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice of independence. A term of contempt.
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CALUMNUS, n. A graduate of the School for Scandal.
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Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.
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Definition: CONNOISSEUR, n. A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else.
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Adolescence: A stage between infancy and adultery.
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