SACERDOTALIST, n. One who holds the belief that a clergyman is a priest. Denial of this momentous doctrine is the hardest challenge that is now flung into the teeth of the Episcopalian church by the Neo-Dictionarians.
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PHILANTHROPIST, n. A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.Ambrose Bierce
REBEL, n. A proponent of a new misrule who has failed to establish it.
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JOSS-STICKS, n. Small sticks burned by the Chinese in their pagan tomfoolery, in imitation of certain sacred rites of our holy religion.
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Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
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FIB, n. A lie that has not cut its teeth. An habitual liar's nearest approach to truth the perigee of his eccentric orbit.
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