DIPLOMACY, n. Lying in state, or the patriotic art of lying for one's country.
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REVELATION, n. A famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the commentators, who know nothing.Ambrose Bierce
Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity.
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PRECIPITATE, adj. Anteprandial.
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BOTANY, n. The science of vegetables those that are not good to eat, as well as those that are. It deals largely with their flowers, which are commonly badly designed, inartistic in color, and ill- smelling.
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HIPPOGRIFF, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was a compound creature, half lion and half eagle. The hippogriff was, therefore, only one quarter eagle, which is 2.50 in gold. Zoology is full of surprises.
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LEVIATHAN, n. An enormous aquatic animal mentioned by Job. Some suppose it to have been the whale, but others maintain with considerable heat that it was a species of gigantic Tadpole (Thaddeus Polandensis) or Polliwig.
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