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• WEATHER, n. The climate of the hour. A permanent topic of conversation among persons whom it does not intere
  but who have inherited the tendency to chatter about it from naked arboreal ancestors whom it keenly concerned....
• WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity.
  The student of history who has not been taught to expect the unexpected may justly boast himself inaccessible to the light....
• Much to his Mum and Dad's dismay, Horace ate himself one day.
  He didn't stop to say his grace, he just sat down and ate his face....
• HADES, n. The lower world; the residence of departed spiri
  he place where the dead live. Among the ancients the idea of Hades was not synonymous with our Hell, many of the most respectable men of antiquity residing there in a very comfortable kind of way....
• WASHINGTONIAN, n. A Potomac tribesman who exchanged the privilege of governing himself for the advantage of good government.
  In justice to him it should be said that he did not want to....
• UNDERSTANDING, n. A cerebral secretion that enables one having it to know a house from a horse by the roof on the house.
  Its nature and laws have been exhaustively expounded by Locke, who rode a house, and Kant, who lived in a horse....
• SCARABEE, n. The same as scarabaeus. He fell by his own hand Beneath the great oak tree.
  He'd traveled in a foreign land. He tried to make her understand The dance that's called the Saraband, But he called it Scarabee....
• KING, n. A male person commonly known in America as a "crowned head," although he never wears a crown and has usually no head to speak of.
  A king, in times long, long gone by, Said to his lazy jeste...
• He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.
  -- French philosopher Charles Peguy...