CLERGYMAN, n. A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of better his temporal ones.
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PROVIDENTIAL, adj. Unexpectedly and conspicuously beneficial to the person so describing it.
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Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
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ZEAL, n. A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced. A passion that goeth before a sprawl.
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SYMBOL, n. Something that is supposed to typify or stand for something else. Many symbols are mere 'survivals' as funereal urns carved on memorial monuments. We cannot stop making them, but we can give them a name that conceals our helplessness.
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INCOME, n. The natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability . . .
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