OBLIVION, n. The state or condition in which the wicked cease from struggling and the dreary are at rest. Fame's eternal dumping ground.
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BOTANY, n. The science of vegetables those that are not good to eat, as well as those that are. It deals largely with their flowers, which are commonly badly designed, inartistic in color, and ill- smelling.
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LOW-BRED, adj. 'Raised' instead of brought up.
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Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
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