EXTINCTION, n. The raw material out of which theology created the future state.
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IMPARTIAL, adj. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy or adopting either of two conflicting opinions.
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ACHIEVEMENT, n. The death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.
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Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
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SLANG, n. The speech of one who utters with his tongue what he thinks with his ear, and feels the pride of a creator in accomplishing the feat of a parrot. A means (under Providence) of setting up as a wit without a capital of sense.
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MONOSYLLABIC, adj. Composed of words of one syllable ... Commonly Saxon that is to say, words of a barbarous people destitute of ideas and incapable of any but the most elementary sentiments and emotions.
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