TRUST, n. In American politics, a large corporation composed in greater part of thrifty working men, widows of small means, orphans in the care of guardians and the courts, with many similar malefactors and public enemies.
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LECTURER, n. One with his hand in your pocket, his tongue in your ear and his faith in your patience.Ambrose Bierce
MATERIAL, adj. Having an actual existence, as distinguished from an imaginary one. Important.
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RIME, n. Agreeing sounds in the terminals of verse, mostly bad. The verses themselves, as distinguished from prose, mostly dull. Usually (and wickedly) spelled 'rhyme.'
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INTENTION, n. The mind's sense of the prevalence of one set of influences over another set an effect whose cause is the imminence, immediate or remote, of the performance of an involuntary act.
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K, n. A consonant originally precisely that of our H, but altered to its present shape to commemorate the destruction of one of two lofty columns in the great temple of Jarute.
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UN-AMERICAN, adj. Wicked, intolerable, heathenish.
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