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Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.

Ambrose Bierce

Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
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Beautiful Belief Optimism Ugly
Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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Arrangement Classification Ignorance Knowledge Small
Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
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Best Gift God Man
Alliance – in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other’s pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
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Each Other Hands International Separate Thief Union
What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.
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Believe Country Democracy Oneself Ruin
Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man – who has no gills.
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Body Man Ocean World
War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
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God Place Teaching War
REFLECTION,n: An Action of the mind whereby we obtain a clearer view of our relation to the things of yesterday and are able to avoid the perils that we shall not again encounter.
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Avoid Mindset Ourselves Reflection Relationship
Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
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Avoid People Selfish
Scriptures – The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
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Faith Holy Ourselves Religion Scripture Writing
Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
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Entertainment Innocent Military Popular
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Love Marriage Sanity Temporary
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
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Food Place Religion Service State
Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots.
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Appearance Earth Face Genius God Leaving Nature Original Root Woman
Don’t steal; thou’lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
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Business Cheating Complete Steal Success
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
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Fake Fools History Important Rule

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