RECOUNT, n. In American politics, another throw of the dice, accorded to the player against whom they are loaded.
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DOG, n. A subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.... His master works for the means wherewith to purchase the idle wag of the Solomonic tail, seasoned with a look of tolerant recognition.Ambrose Bierce
KNOWLEDGE, n. -- The small body of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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USAGE, n. The First Person of the literary Trinity, the Second and Third being Custom and Conventionality. Imbued with a decent reverence for this Holy Triad an industrious writer may hope to produce books that will live as long as the fashion.
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Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
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PUSH, n. One of the two things mainly conducive to success, especially in politics. The other is Pull.
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