PRE-EXISTENCE, n. An unnoted factor in creation.
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ENTHUSIASM, n. A distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience. Byron, who recovered long enough to call it 'entuzy-muzy,' had a relapse, which carried him off to Missolonghi.Ambrose Bierce
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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IMPROVIDENCE, n. Provision for the needs of to-day from the revenues of to-morrow.
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PREHISTORIC, adj. Belonging to an early period and a museum. Antedating the art and practice of perpetuating falsehood.
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I, pro. In grammar it is a pronoun of the first person and singular number. Its plural is said to be We, but how there can be more than one myself is doubtless clearer the grammarians than it is to the author of this incomparable dictionary. Concepti.
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Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.
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