STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached.
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Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum. (I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.)
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MALTHUSIAN, adj. Pertaining to Malthus and his doctrines, who believed in artificially limiting population, but found that it could not be done by talking. Herod of Judea, all the famous soldiers have been practical exponents of the Malthusian idea.
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ZENITH, n. The point in the heavens directly overhead to a man standing or a growing cabbage. A man in bed or a cabbage in the pot is not considered as having a zenith, though Horizontalists hold that the posture of the body was immaterial.
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SELF-ESTEEM,n. An erroneous appraisal.
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MEERSCHAUM, n. A fine white clay, which for convenience in coloring it brown is made into tobacco pipes and smoked by the workmen engaged in that industry.
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