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ADMONITION, n. Gentle reproof, as with a meat-axe. Friendly warning.
Consigned by way of admonition, His soul forever to perdition. --Judibras |
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| ADOLESCENCE The stage between puberty and adultery. |
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ADVICE, n. The smallest current coin.
"The man was in such deep distress," Said Tom, "that I could do no less Than give him good advice." Said Jim:
"If less could have been done for him I know you well enough, my son, To know that's what you would have done." --Jebel Jocordy |
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| AFFIANCED, pp. Fitted with an ankle-ring for the ball-and-chain. |
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| AFFLICTION, n. An acclimatizing process preparing the soul for another and bitter world. |
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| Age: that period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we no longer have the enterprise to commit |
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AGITATOR, n. A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors
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AIM, n. The task we set our wishes to.
"Cheer up! Have you no aim in life?" She tenderly inquired.
"An aim? Well, no, I haven't, wife; The fact is --I have fired." --G.J. |
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| AIR, n. A nutritious substance supplied by a bountiful Providence for the fattening of the poor. |
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| ALDERMAN, n. An ingenious criminal who covers his secret thieving with a pretence of open marauding. |
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| ALIEN, n. An American sovereign in his probationary state. |
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| All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. |
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| All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher. |
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ALLAH, n. The Mahometan Supreme Being, as distinguished from the Christian, Jewish, and so forth.
Allah's good laws I faithfully have kept, And ever for the sins of man have wept; And sometimes kneeling in the temple I Have reverently crossed my hands and slept. --Junker Barlow |
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ALLEGIANCE, n.
This thing Allegiance, as I suppose, Is a ring fitted in the subject's nose, Whereby that organ is kept rightly pointed To smell the sweetness of the Lord's anointed. --G.J. |
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