Heaven, n. A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound your own.
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RUIN, v. To destroy. Specifically, to destroy a maid's belief in the virtue of maids.
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WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity.
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PRE-EXISTENCE, n. An unnoted factor in creation.
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HURRICANE, n. An atmospheric demonstration once very common but now generally abandoned for the tornado and cyclone. The hurricane is still in popular use in the West Indies and is preferred by certain old-fashioned sea-captains.
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Backbite. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you.
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