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Prescription: A physician’s guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.

Ambrose Bierce

Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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Happiness Temptation Weakness
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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Fear Hope Ignorance Known Religion
Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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Ambition Himself Name Patriot
Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize.
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Country Discover Fertilization Person
Laughter, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.
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Company Interior Laughter Noise
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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Degree Independence Intellectual
Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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Disappointment Perspective Time
LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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Law Oneself Skills
IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
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Fact Imagination Lying Poet
MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavour to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with.
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Brain Fact Himself Mindset Mysterious Nature
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Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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Bad Mathematics People
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
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Care Civilization Government Intelligence Ourselves Reward
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
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Angry Best Regret Talk Yourself
War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
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God Place Teaching War
Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
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Appearance Art Color Fools White
Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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Leadership Philosophy Road

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