IMPIETY, n. Your irreverence toward my deity.
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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
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MULTITUDE, n. A crowd the source of political wisdom and virtue. In a republic, the object of the statesman's adoration.
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POLYGAMY, n. A house of atonement, or expiatory chapel, fitted with several stools of repentance, as distinguished from monogamy, which has but one.
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