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“UNIVERSALIST, n. One who forgoes the advantage of a Hell for persons of another faith.”

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“UXORIOUSNESS, n. A perverted affection that has strayed to one's own wife.”

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“VIRTUES, n.pl. Certain abstentions.”

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“VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit.”

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“VOTE, n. The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.”

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“WEAKNESSES, n.pl. Certain primal powers of Tyrant Woman wherewith she holds dominion over the male of her species, binding him to the service of her will and paralyzing his rebellious energies.”

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“WEDDING, n. A ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.”

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“WHITE, adj. and n. Black.”

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“WIDOW, n. A pathetic figure that the Christian world has agreed to take humorously, although Christ's tenderness towards widows was one of the most marked features of his character.”

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“WINE, n. Fermented grape-juice known to the Women's Christian Union as 'liquor,' sometimes as 'rum.' Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.”

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“WIT, n. The salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.”

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“WITCH, n. (1) Any ugly and repulsive old woman, in a wicked league with the devil. (2) A beautiful and attractive young woman, in wickedness a league beyond the devil.”

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“WITTICISM, n. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted, and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a 'joke.'”

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“WORSHIP, n. Homo Creator's testimony to the sound construction and fine finish of Deus Creatus. A popular form of abjection, having an element of pride.”

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“YANKEE, n. In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New Englander. In the Southern States the word is unknown. (See DAMNYANK.)”

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“YEAR, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.”

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“Impiety, noun. Your irreverence toward my deity.”

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“Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.”

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“Faith, noun. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel”

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“Diplomacy: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.”

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