POTABLE, n. Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be potable indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although even they find it palatable only when suffering from the recurrent disorder known as thirst, for which it is a medicine.
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PLATONIC, adj. Pertaining to the philosophy of Socrates. Platonic Love is a fool's name for the affection between a disability and a frost.Ambrose Bierce
DIVINATION, n. The art of nosing out the occult. Divination is of as many kinds as there are fruit-bearing varieties of the flowering dunce and the early fool.
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Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.
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RATTLESNAKE, n. Our prostrate brother, 'Homo ventrambulans'.
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We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.
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NEPOTISM, n. Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party.
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