PILGRIM, n. A traveler that is taken seriously. A Pilgrim Father was one who was not permitted to sing psalms through his nose in Europe, followed it to Massachusetts, where he could personate God according to the dictates of his conscience.
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CENTAUR, n. One of a race of persons who lived before the division of labor had been carried to such a pitch of differentiation, and who followed the primitive economic maxim, 'Every man his own horse.'Ambrose Bierce
CONDOLE, v.i. To show that bereavement is a smaller evil than sympathy.
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Heaven, n. A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound your own.
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LL. D. Letters indicating the degree Legumptionorum Doctor, one learned in laws, gifted with legal gumption. Some suspicion is cast upon this derivation by the fact that the title was formerly LL.d., and conferred only upon gentlemen distinguished.
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TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer.
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PAST, n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a slight and regrettable acquaintance. The Past is the Future of yesterday, the Future is the Past of to-morrow. They are one the knowledge and the dream.
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