Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
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FORMA PAUPERIS. Latin In the character of a poor person a method by which a litigant without money for lawyers is considerately permitted to lose his case.Ambrose Bierce
POPULIST, n. A fossil patriot of the early agricultural period, found in the old red soapstone underlying Kansas ...
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SOPHISTRY, n. The controversial method of an opponent, distinguished from one's own by superior insincerity and fooling.
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EXISTENCE, n. A transient, horrible, fantastic dream, Wherein is nothing yet all things do seem From which we're wakened by a friendly nudge Of our bedfellow Death, and cry 'O fudge'
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IMPOSTOR n. A rival aspirant to public honors.
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Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
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