REVERENCE, n. The spiritual attitude of a man to a god and a dog to a man.
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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.Ambrose Bierce
Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.
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PROVIDENTIAL, adj. Unexpectedly and conspicuously beneficial to the person so describing it.
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CONTEMPT, n. The feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed.
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OPTIMISM, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong. It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious.
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POPULIST, n. A fossil patriot of the early agricultural period, found in the old red soapstone underlying Kansas ...
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