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• Guillotine: A machine which makes the Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason.
  -- Ambrose Bierce: "The Devil's Dictionary...
• HEART, n. An automatic, muscular blood-pump. Figuratively
  his useful organ is said to be the esat of emotions and sentiments -- a very pretty fancy which, however, is nothing but a survival of a once universal belief....
• IN'ARDS, n. The stomach, heart, soul and other bowels.
  Many eminent investigators do not class the soul as an in'ard, but that acute observer and renowned authority, Dr....
• 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....
• 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 wep...
• FROG, n. A reptile with edible legs. The first mention of frogs in profane literature is in Homer's narrative of the war between them and the mice.
  Skeptical persons have doubted Homer's authorship of the work, but the learned, ingenious and industrious Dr....
• RIGHT, n. Legitimate authority to be, to do or to have
  as the right to be a king, the right to do one's neighbor, the right to have measles, and the like....
• The Poet Whose Badness Saved His Life The most important poet in the seventeenth century was George Wither.
  Alexander Pope called him "wretched Wither" and Dryden said of his verse that "if they rhymed and rattled all was well"....
• REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of i
  Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it) At work upon a book, and so read out of it The qualities that you have first read into it....