RATTLESNAKE, n. Our prostrate brother, 'Homo ventrambulans'.
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GOOD, adj. Sensible, madam, to the worth of this present writer. Alive, sir, to the advantages of letting him alone.Ambrose Bierce
NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient.
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INEXPEDIENT, adj. Not calculated to advance one's interests.
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PLEASE, v. To lay the foundation for a superstructure of imposition.
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Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
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IMMODEST, adj. Having a strong sense of one's own merit, coupled with a feeble conception of worth in others.
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