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- OUT-OF-DOORS, n. That part of one's environment upon which no government has been able to collect taxes. Chiefly useful to inspire poets.
- Responsibility, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor. In the days of astrology it was…
- NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient.
- MONOSYLLABIC, adj. Composed of words of one syllable . . . Commonly Saxon - that is to say, words of a barbarous people destitute of…
- SAUCE, n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices; a people with one sauce has…
- Immigrant: An unenlightened person who thinks one country better than another.
- NOTORIETY, n. The fame of one's competitor for public honors. The kind of renown most accessible and acceptable to mediocrity. A Jacob's-ladder leading to the…
- One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises.
- 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…
- LAP, n. One of the most important organs of the female system - an admirable provision of nature for the repose of infancy, but chiefly…
- Pertaining to a certain order of architecture, otherwise known as Normal American. Most of the public buildings of the United States are of the Ramshackle…
- ASPERSE, v.t. Maliciously to ascribe to another vicious actions which one has not had the temptation and opportunity to commit.
- FEMALE, n. One of the opposing, or unfair, sex.
- 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…
- PREFERENCE, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief that one thing is better than another.
- INFALAPSARIAN, n. One who ventures to believe that Adam need not have sinned unless he had a mind to - in opposition to the Supralapsarians,…
- LEGACY, n. A gift from one who is legging it out of this vale of tears.
- EXPOSTULATION, n. One of the many methods by which fools prefer to lose their friends.
- BEGGAR, n. One who has relied on the assistance of his friends.
- ANTIPATHY, n. The sentiment inspired by one's friend's friend.
- Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.
- UNDERSTANDING, n. A cerebral secretion that enables one having it to know a house from a horse by the roof on the house. Its nature…
- SIREN, n. One of several musical prodigies famous for a vain attempt to dissuade Odysseus from a life on the ocean wave. Figuratively, any lady…
- ROPE, n. An obsolescent appliance for reminding assassins that they too are mortal. It is put about the neck and remains in place one's whole…
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- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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