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• AUCTIONEER, n. The man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• IDIOT, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.
  The Idiot's activity is not confined to any special field of thought or action, but "pervades and regulates the whole....
• LOSS, n. Privation of that which we had, or had not.
  Thus, in the latter sense, it is said of a defeated candidate that he "lost his electio...
• MISDEMEANOR, n. An infraction of the law having less dignity than a felony and constituting no claim to admittance into the best criminal society.
  By misdemeanors he essays to climb Into the aristocracy of crime....
• TENACITY, n. A certain quality of the human hand in its relation to the coin of the realm.
  It attains its highest development in the hand of authority and is considered a serviceable equipment for a career in politics....
• He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppressio
  for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach unto himself....
• He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppressio
  for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself....
• COMPROMISE, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have
  and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due....
• RIGHTEOUSNESS, n. A sturdy virtue that was once found among the Pantidoodles inhabiting the lower part of the peninsula of Oque.
  Some feeble attempts were made by returned missionaries to introduce it into several European countries, but it appears to have been imperfectly expounded....