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“PHOENIX, n. The classical prototype of the modern 'small hot bird.'”

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“PHONOGRAPH, n. An irritating toy that restores life to dead noises.”

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“PHOTOGRAPH, n. A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. It is a little better than the work of an Apache, but not quite so good as that of a Cheyenne.”

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“PHRENOLOGY, n. The science of picking the pocket through the scalp. It consists in locating and exploiting the organ that one is a dupe with.”

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“PHYSICIAN, n. One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.”

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“PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by pressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the audience.”

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“PICKANINNY, n. The young of the _Procyanthropos_, or _Americanus dominans_. It is small, black and charged with political fatalities.”

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“PIG, n. An animal (_Porcus omnivorus_) closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in scope, for it sticks at pig.”

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“PILLORY, n. A mechanical device for inflicting personal distinction -- prototype of the modern newspaper conducted by persons of austere virtues and blameless lives.”

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“PIRACY, n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it.”

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“PITIFUL, adj. The state of an enemy of opponent after an imaginary encounter with oneself.”

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“PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.”

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“PLAGIARISM, n. A literary coincidence compounded of a discreditable priority and an honorable subsequence.”

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“PLAGIARIZE, v. To take the thought or style of another writer whom one has never, never read.”

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“PLAN, v.t. To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result.”

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“PLATONIC, adj. Pertaining to the philosophy of Socrates. Platonic Love is a fool's name for the affection between a disability and a frost.”

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“PLAUDITS, n. Coins with which the populace pays those who tickle and devour it.”

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“PLEASE, v. To lay the foundation for a superstructure of imposition.”

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“PLEASURE, n. The least hateful form of dejection.”

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“PLEBEIAN, n. An ancient Roman who in the blood of his country stained nothing but his hands. Distinguished from the Patrician, who was a saturated solution.”

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