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SYLPH, n. An immaterial but visible being that inhabited the air when the air was an element and before it was fatally polluted with factory smoke, sewer gas and similar products of civilization."
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"THEOSOPHY, n. An ancient faith having all the certitude of religion and all the mystery of science."
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"REVOLUTION, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. . . . the substitution of the rule of an Administration for that of a Ministry, whereby the welfare and happiness of the people were advanced a full half-inch."
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"SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam."
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"SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness."
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