INSCRIPTION, n. Something written on another thing mostly memorial, intended to commemorate the fame of some illustrious person and hand down to distant ages ... e.g., the name of John Smith, penciled on the Washington monument.
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MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.
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EVANGELIST, n. A bearer of good tidings, particularly (in a religious sense) such as assure us of our own salvation and the damnation of our neighbors.
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ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity.
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MIRACLE, n. An act or event out of the order of nature and unaccountable, as beating a normal hand of four kings and an ace with four aces and a king.
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There's nothing new under the sun, but there are lots of old things we don't know.
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