KNOWLEDGE, n. -- The small body of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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AGITATOR, n. A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors to dislodge the worms.Ambrose Bierce
IMPALE, v.t. In popular usage, to pierce with any weapon which remains fixed in the wound .... properly, to put to death by thrusting an upright sharp stake into the body, the victim being left in a sitting position.
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RHADOMANCER, n. One who uses a divining-rod in prospecting for precious metals in the pocket of a fool.
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Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
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Advice n. the smallest current coin.
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PROBOSCIS, n. The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of the knife-and-fork that Evolution has as yet denied him. For purposes of humor it is popularly called a trunk.
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