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Prostitute: A busy body.

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Dictatorship: A place where public opinion can’t even be expressed privately.

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Gardening: Man’s effort to improve his lot.

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Experience: A form of knowledge acquired only two ways: by doing and being done.

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Committee: Individuals who can do nothing individually and sit to decide that nothing can be done together.

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Budget: An orderly system of living beyond your means.

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Dignity: Something that can’t be preserved in alcohol.

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Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law’s peace of mind by giving him a piece of hers.

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Ambidextrous: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist
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Accordian: An instrument inharmony with the sentiments of an assassin.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist
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Diplomat: If you have the advantage over someone, and you lead him to think that he has the advantage over you, without giving him the chance to take advantage of you.

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Taxation: The process by which money is collected from the people to pay the salaries of the men who do the collecting.

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Self-esteem: An erroneous appraisement.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist
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Karate: The ancient Japanese art of getting people to buy lots of belts.

(1978 – ) American stand-up comedian
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Rugby: A game played by gentlemen with odd-shaped balls.

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Flirt: A girl who got the boy you wanted.

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Clever Woman: One who knows how to give a man her own way.

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Retraction: The revision of an insult to give it wider circulation.

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Marriage: The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist
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Desire: The thing that is so often nipped in the budget.

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Luxury Resort: One where a waiter expects a $2 tip when he presents a $6 bill for serving a $3.50 bottle of beer.

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