IMPUNITY, n. Wealth.
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LODGER, n. A less popular name for the Second Person of that delectable newspaper Trinity, the Roomer, the Bedder, and the Mealer.Ambrose Bierce
TZETZE (or TSETSE) FLY, n. An African insect ('Glossina morsitans') whose bite is commonly regarded as nature's most efficacious remedy for insomnia, though some patients prefer that of the American novelist ('Mendax interminabilis').
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DIGESTION, n. The conversion of victuals into virtues. When the process is imperfect, vices are evolved instead a circumstance from which that wicked writer, Dr. Jeremiah Blenn, infers that the ladies are the greater sufferers from dyspepsia.
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MORAL, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency.
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CONSOLATION, n. The knowledge that a better man is more unfortunate than yourself.
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DISSEMBLE, v.i. To put a clean shirt upon the character.
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