TEETOTALER, n. One who abstains from strong drink, sometimes totally, sometimes tolerably totally.
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USAGE, n. The First Person of the literary Trinity, the Second and Third being Custom and Conventionality. Imbued with a decent reverence for this Holy Triad an industrious writer may hope to produce books that will live as long as the fashion.
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Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.
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EXISTENCE, n. A transient, horrible, fantastic dream, Wherein is nothing yet all things do seem From which we're wakened by a friendly nudge Of our bedfellow Death, and cry 'O fudge'
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