BATH, n. A kind of mystic ceremony substituted for religious worship, with what spiritual efficacy has not been determined.
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TELESCOPE, n. A device having a relation to the eye similar to that of the telephone to the ear, enabling distant objects to plague us with a multitude of needless details. Luckily it is unprovided with a bell summoning us to the sacrifice.
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RUBBISH, n. Worthless matter, such as the religions, philosophies, literatures, arts and sciences of the tribes infesting the regions lying due south from Boreaplas.
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CHRISTIAN, n. One who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor.
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ARENA, n. In politics, an imaginary rat-pit in which the statesman wrestles with his record.
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INDISCRETION, n. The guilt of woman.
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