INTIMACY, n. A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual destruction.
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WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity.
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Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.
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MAMMALIA, n.pl. A family of vertebrate animals whose females in a state of nature suckle their young, but when civilized and enlightened put them out to nurse, or use the bottle.
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X, n. In our alphabet being a needless letter has an added invincibility to the attacks of the spelling reformers, and like them, will doubtless last as long as the language.
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REVEILLE, n. A signal to sleeping soldiers to dream of battlefields no more, but get up and have their blue noses counted.
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