IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
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NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi.
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LEVIATHAN, n. An enormous aquatic animal mentioned by Job. Some suppose it to have been the whale, but others maintain with considerable heat that it was a species of gigantic Tadpole (Thaddeus Polandensis) or Polliwig.
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PRESIDENT, n. The leading figure in a small group of men of whom and of whom only it is positively known that immense numbers of their countrymen did not want any of them for President.
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