LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used in giving stability to light lovers particularly to those who love not wisely but other men's wives.
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Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.Ambrose Bierce
REDUNDANT, adj. Superfluous needless 'de trop'.
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RAMSHACKLE, adj. Pertaining to a certain order of architecture, otherwise known as the Normal American. Most of the public buildings of the United States are of the Ramshackle order, though some of our earlier architects preferred the Ironic.
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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that 'Stone walls do not a prison make,' but a combination of the stone wall, the political parasite and the moral instructor is no garden of sweets.
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DIPLOMACY, n. Lying in state, or the patriotic art of lying for one's country.
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