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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

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Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
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Entertainment Innocent Military Popular
I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
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Myself Reputation Thinking
Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
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Death Money Person Praise Wealth
There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don’t know.
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Adventure Knowledge Old Sun Wisdom
You don’t have to be stupid to be a Christian, but it probably helps.
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Help Religion Stupidity
Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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Assasination Harmony Instrument
A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.
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Marriage People Person Support
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
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Convincing Doubt Enemy Man 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
Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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Disguised Patience Virtue
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
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Analysis Delusion Himself Philosophy
The partisan strife in which the people of the country are permitted to periodically engage does not tend to the development of ugly traits of character, but merely discloses those that preexist.
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Country Development Engagement Existence People Strife
Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
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Final Funny Rich
The covers of this book are too far apart.
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Book Distance
Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
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Black Color Optimism White
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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Fear Hope Ignorance Known Religion

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