HOMICIDE, n. The slaying of one human being by another. There are four kinds of homocide felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slain ..., but is for the advantage of the lawyers.
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INEXPEDIENT, adj. Not calculated to advance one's interests.
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Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
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JEWS-HARP, n. An unmusical instrument, played by holding it fast with the teeth and trying to brush it away with the finger.
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Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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