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ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.


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In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.



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Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.



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Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.



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NEPOTISM, n. Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party.



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Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.

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