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Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.
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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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Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.
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Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
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Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
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Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.
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Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.
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Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
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Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.
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Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.
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Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized.
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Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
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Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
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The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
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The covers of this book are too far apart.
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The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
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