Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.
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YANKEE, n. In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New Englander. In the Southern States the word is unknown. (See DAMYANK.)Ambrose Bierce
IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
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ENOUGH, pro. All there is in the world if you like it.
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KINDNESS, n. A brief preface to ten volumes of exaction.
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Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.
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SEINE, n. A kind of net for effecting an involuntary change of environment. For fish it is made strong and coarse, but women are more easily taken with a singularly delicate fabric weighted with small, cut stones.
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