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=ACCESSION= A beheading process by which you may either win or
lose a political job. Old spelling, _Axe-session_.

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=ACCIDENT= A condition of affairs in which presence of mind is
good, but absence of body better.

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=ADAMANT= From "Adam's Aunt," reputed to be a hard character.
Hence, anything tough, or hard.

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=ADORE= From _add_, annex, and _ore_, meaning wealth. Example,
foreign nobles who marry American heiresses _adore_ them.

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=ADVICE= A commodity peddled by your lawyer and given away by your
mother-in-law, but impossible to dispose of yourself. Famous
as the one thing which it is "More blessed to give than
receive." =GOOD ADVICE= Something old men give young men when
they can no longer give them a bad example.

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=ADVERSITY= A bottomless lake, surrounded by near-sighted friends.

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=AFFINITY= Complimentary term for your husband or your wife.
Sometimes a synonym for "Your finish."

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=AFTERTHOUGHT= A tardy sense of prudence that prompts one to try
to shut his mouth about the time he has put his foot in it.

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=AGE= Something to brag about in your wine-cellar and forget in a
birth-day book The boast of an old vintage, the bug a boo of
an old maid.

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=ALCOHOL= A liquid good for preserving almost everything except
secrets.

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=ALDERMAN=

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A political office known as the Crook's Road to Wealth. From Eng.
_all_, and Greek _derma_, meaning skin--"all skin."

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=ALIMONY= An expensive soothing syrup, prescribed by the judge for
a divorcee's bleeding heart. (Old spelling, _allay money_).

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=ALLOPATHY= From Eng. _all_, everybody, and Grk. _pathos_, pain.
Pain for everybody. =HOMOEOPATHY= From Grk. _homoios_, same,
and _pathos_. Pain, just the same.

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=ALPHABET= A toy for the children found in books, blocks, pictures