METROPOLIS, n. A stronghold of provincialism.
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YANKEE, n. In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New Englander. In the Southern States the word is unknown. (See DAMYANK.)
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RITE, n. A religious or semi-religious ceremony fixed by law, precept or custom, with the essential oil of sincerity carefully squeezed out of it.
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EFFECT, n. The second of two phenomena which always occur together in the same order. The first, called a Cause, is said to generate the other which is no more sensible than it would be ... to declare the rabbit the cause of a dog who pursues it.
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BACK, n. That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity.
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