ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
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MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.Ambrose Bierce
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
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Backbite. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you.
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RADICALISM, n. The conservatism of to-morrow injected into the affairs of to-day.
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Applause n. the echo of a platitude.
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RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue.
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