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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POVERTY, n. A file provided for the teeth of the rats of reform. Its victims are distinguished by possession of all the virtues and by their faith in leaders seeking to conduct them into a prosperity where they believe these to be unknown.Ambrose Bierce
Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible.
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HUMANITY, n. The human race, collectively, exclusive of the anthropoid poets.
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Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
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OVEREAT, v. To dine.
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TEETOTALER, n. One who abstains from strong drink, sometimes totally, sometimes tolerably totally.
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