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Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

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IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
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INGRATE, n. One who receives a benefit from another, or is otherwise an object of charity.
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POETRY, n. A form of expression peculiar to the Land beyond the Magazines.
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PRIVATE, n. A military gentleman with a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack and an impediment in his hope.
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CENTAUR, n. One of a race of persons who lived before the division of labor had been carried to such a pitch of differentiation, and who followed the primitive economic maxim, Every man his own horse.
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DECALOGUE, n. A series of commandments, ten in number - just enough to permit an intelligent selection for observance, but not enough to embarrass the choice.
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INDISCRETION, n. The guilt of woman.
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FORCE, n. Force is but might, the teacher said p/ That definition's just./ The boy said naught but throught instead,/ Remembering his pounded head:/ Force is not might but must!
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