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Wednesday, June 12, 2002

More definitions! 1) Intimacy: A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual destruction. 2) Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers, and springs, and believes it to be civilization. 3) Irreligion: The principal one of the great faiths of the world. 4) Itch: The patriotism of a Scotchman. 5) Kill: To create vacancy without nominating a successor. 6) Kilt: A costume sometimes worn by Scotchmen in America and Americans in Scotland. 7) Kiss: A word invented by poets as a rhyme for "bliss". It is supposed to signify, in a general way, some kind of rite or ceremony appertaining to a good understanding. 8) Kleptomaniac: A rich thief. 9) Learning: The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious. 10) Liberty: One if imaginations most precious possessions. 11) Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage or removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. 12) Marriage: The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two. 13) Peace: In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting. 14) Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited. 15) Truthful: Dumb and illiterate. 16) Wedding: A ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.

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