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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Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
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Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.
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QUILL, n. An implement of torture yielded by a goose and commonly wielded by an ass. This use of the quill is now obsolete, but its modern equivalent, the steel pen, is wielded by the same everlasting Presence.
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DISOBEY, v.t. To celebrate with an appropriate ceremony the maturity of a command.
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