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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.

Ambrose Bierce

REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.
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Art Charm Measurement Nature Worm
Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
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Best Gift God Man
Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
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Ambition Death Desire Enemy Friendship
RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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Assassination Character Weapon
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
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Art Human Limitation Reason Thinking Understand
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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Degree Independence Intellectual
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
Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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Assasination Harmony Instrument
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
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
The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
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Confirm Degree Democracy Reward
Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
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Black Color Optimism White
Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
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Community Marriage Master Mistress Slave
Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor.
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Believe Divine Need Neighbor Religion Spiritual
Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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Arrangement Classification Ignorance Knowledge Small
You don’t have to be stupid to be a Christian, but it probably helps.
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Help Religion Stupidity

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