Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.
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RIOT, n. A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
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ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a candidate for office energetically expounds the wisdom, virtue and power of the rabble.
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PREDICAMENT, n. The wage of consistency.
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PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another.
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