butterfly.

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=PENITENT= From _pen_, meaning to write, and _intent_, meaning
determination. One who determines for the right.

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=PESSIMIST= One who paints things blue. And sometimes red.

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=PHILISTINE= In Bible times, one who worried the children of
Israel; today, one who worries only himself. From Grk.
_phloios_, bark, and _tino_, to punish. One who barks to
punish.

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=PHILANTHROPIST= One who returns to the people publicly a small
percentage of the wealth he steals from them privately.

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=PHILOSOPHER= One who instead of crying over spilt milk consoles
himself with the thought that it was over four-fifths water.

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=PHILOSOPHY= Something that enables the rich to say there is no
disgrace in being poor.

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=PIANO= A tool frequently used in building a Rough House.

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=PIN= The best dresser in a woman's acquaintance--of remarkable
penetration and true as steel, seldom loses its head, follows
its own bent and carries its point in whatever it undertakes.

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=PING-PONG= A game invented for the benefit of furniture and
crockery dealers.

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=PITY= An emotion awakened in a man's mind when he beholds the
children of a woman who might have married him instead.

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=PLATONIC LOVE= An arrangement in which a man and woman attempt a
correct imitation of a pair of icicles--and never succeed.

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=PLENTY= A desirable condition that is likely to step out whenever
Extravagance steps in.

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=PLUM= A fruit that ripens and falls from the Political Tree--but
only after careful grafting.

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=PLUMB= To ascertain the capacity of.

=PLUMBER= One who ascertains the capacity of your purse, soaks you
with a piece of lead and gets away with the money--a process
vulgarly known as "a lead-pipe cinch."

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