PUSH, n. One of the two things mainly conducive to success, especially in politics. The other is Pull.

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The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of...

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of...

Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

Incompatibility: In matrimony, a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Incompatibility: In matrimony, a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity...

A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity...

INSURRECTION, n. An unsuccessful revolution. Disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.

INSURRECTION, n. An unsuccessful revolution. Disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.

Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

The spiritual attitude of a man to a god and a dog to a man.

The spiritual attitude of a man to a god and a dog to a man.

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

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

Politeness is the most acceptable hypocrisy

Politeness is the most acceptable hypocrisy

MUGWUMP, n. In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice of independence....

MUGWUMP, n. In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice of independence....

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

Habit is a shackle for the free.

Habit is a shackle for the free.

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which...

Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which...

MONARCHICAL GOVERNMENT, n. Government.

MONARCHICAL GOVERNMENT, n. Government.

Backbite. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you.

Backbite. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you.

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people...

I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people...

Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not...

Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not...

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving...

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving...