Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
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You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. You are avenged 1440 times each day.
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Academy A modern school where football is taught.
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POSTERITY, n. An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author's contemporaries, the appellant being his obscure competitor.
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INFALAPSARIAN, n. One who ventures to believe that Adam need not have sinned unless he had a mind to in opposition to the Supralapsarians, who hold that that luckless person's fall was decreed from the beginning.
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PLEBISCITE, n. A popular vote to ascertain the will of the sovereign.
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