FOLLY, n. That 'gift and faculty divine' whose creative and controlling energy inspires Man's mind, guides his actions and adorns his life.
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MISDEMEANOR, n. An infraction of the law having less dignity than a felony and constituting no claim to admittance into the best criminal society.
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EPITAPH, n. An inscription on a tomb, showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.
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INTENTION, n. The mind's sense of the prevalence of one set of influences over another set an effect whose cause is the imminence, immediate or remote, of the performance of an involuntary act.
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MORE, adj. The comparative degree of too much.
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Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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