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• FOOL, n. A person who pervades the domain of intellectual speculation and diffuses himself through the channels of moral activity.
  He is omnific, omniform, omnipercipient, omniscience, omnipotent....
• TREE, n. A tall vegetable intended by nature to serve as a penal apparatus, though through a miscarriage of justice most trees bear only a negligible fruit, or none at all.
  When naturally fruited, the tree is a beneficient agency of civilization and an important factor in public morals....
• INDIFFERENT, adj. Imperfectly sensible to distinctions among things.
  "You tiresome man!" cried Indolentio's wife, "You've grown indifferent to all in life....
• DEBT, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slave- driver.
  As, pent in an aquarium, the troutlet Swims round and round his tank to find an outlet, Pressing his nose against the glass that holds him, Nor ever sees the prison that enfolds him...
• HUMORIST, n. A plague that would have softened down the hoar austerity of Pharaoh's heart and persuaded him to dismiss Israel with his best wishes, cat-quick.
  Lo! the poor humorist, whose tortured mind See jokes in crowds, though still to gloom inclined -- Whose simple appetite, untaught to stray, His brains, renewed by night, consumes by day....
• Homer: You su-diddely-uck, Flanders! [grabs a bell from him] Hear ye, hear ye!
  Ye olde town crier proclaimed crappy by all!...
• But among the children of the Great Society there were those whose skins were black.
  And lo! Their portion was niggardly, and of the fatted calf they were sucking hind teat ....
• POPULIST, n. A fossil patriot of the early agricultural period, found in the old red soapstone underlying Kansa
  characterized by an uncommon spread of ear, which some naturalists contend gave him the power of flight, though Professors Morse and Whitney, pursuing independent lines of thought, have ingeniously pointed out that had he possessed it he would have gone elsewhere....