REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is not inconsistent with continuity of sin.
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UN-AMERICAN, adj. Wicked, intolerable, heathenish.Ambrose Bierce
QUOTIENT, n. A number showing how many times a sum of money belonging to one person is contained in the pocket of another usually about as many times as it can be got there.
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PANTHEISM, n. The doctrine that everything is God, in contradistinction to the doctrine that God is everything.
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In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
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The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
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MAJESTY, n. The state and title of a king. Regarded with a just contempt by the Most Eminent Grand Masters, Grand Chancellors, Great Incohonees and Imperial Potentates of the ancient and honorable orders of republican America.
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