of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when
to die.

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=RELIGION= A cloak used by some persons in this world who will be
warm enough without one in the next.

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=R.E. MORSE= A veteran General who commands the largest army in
the world.

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=REPARTEE= The sassy habit of talking back.

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=REPUTATION= A personal possession, frequently not discovered
until lost.

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=RESIDENCE= A rural locality inhabited annually--for a few
hours--by a rich New Yorker or Bostonian.

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=RESOLUTION= A fragile bit of crockery fashioned on the first day
of January and usually broken on the second.

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=RESORT= (=SUMMER=) A place where the tired grow more tired. From
Eng. _rest_, and Grk. _orizo_, to limit. A place where rest is
limited.

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=REST= A trade in which every hobo holds a Union Card for life.

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=RESTAURANT= An institution for the spread of dyspepsia. From Lat.
_restauro_, to repair, and Grk. _anti_, against. After
patronizing, you're "up against repairs."

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=RHETORIC= Language in a dress suit.

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=RICE= An effective field-piece, used for assaulting Chinamen or
the newly-married.

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=ROQUEFORT= A kind of cheese whose odor puts it easily in the
first rank.

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=ROYCROFTER= A successful book-maker on the East Aurora turf. From
Fr. _roi_, king, and old Saxon _crofter_, or grafter. King of
Grafters.

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=RUMOR= The long-distance champion of the Human Race--a monster
with more tales than an octopus.

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=RUST= Physical dullness.

=RUSTIC= Mental dullness.

Beggars should never be choosers--though the beggar often chews what
he begs.

S

A miss is as good as her smile.

=SADDUCEE= A person holding skeptical religious views. Hopeless,
hence sad you see.