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- Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.
- Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
- Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
- OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard.
- General," said the commander of the delinquent brigade, "I am persuaded that any further display of valor by my troops will bring them into collision…
- Appeal. In law, to put the dice into the box for another throw.
- Here's to woman! Would that we could fold into her arms without falling into her hands.
- BRAIN, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think. That which distinguishes the man who is content to be something from the man…
- Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one.
- 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…
- POVERTY, n. A file provided for the teeth of the rats of reform. Its victims are distinguished by possession of all the virtues and by…
- RADICALISM, n. The conservatism of to-morrow injected into the affairs of to-day.
- DAY, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. This period is divided into two parts, the day proper and the night, or day improper…
- REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it./ Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it)/ At work upon…
- QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty and excellence of this incomparable adjective is unhappily denied to him who has…
- PROJECTILE, n. The final arbiter in international disputes. With the growth of prudence in military affairs the projectile came more and more into favor, and…
- 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…
- DIGESTION, n. The conversion of victuals into virtues. When the process is imperfect, vices are evolved instead - a circumstance from which that wicked writer,…
- Magic: (n) The art of converting superstition into coin.
- MISDEMEANOR, n. An infraction of the law having less dignity than a felony and constituting no claim to admittance into the best criminal society.
- GNOSTICS, n. A sect of philosophers who tried to engineer a fusion between the early Christians and the Platonists. The former would not go into…
- IMPALE, v.t. In popular usage, to pierce with any weapon which remains fixed in the wound . . . . properly, to put to death…
- RIGHTEOUSNESS, n. A sturdy virtue that was once found among the Pantidoodles inhabiting the lower part of the peninsula of Oque. Some feeble attempts were…
- MONAD, n. The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter (see Molecule). The monad has body without bulk, and mind without manifestation - containing all the powers…
- A trite popular saying, or proverb. (Figurative and colloquial.) So called because it makes its way into a wooden head. Following are examples of old…
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