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Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

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Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
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Average Perseverance Success Virtue
Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
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Confession Law Prayer Universe Worth
The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
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Confirm Degree Democracy Reward
Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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Drive Slave Substitute
Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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Arrangement Classification Ignorance Knowledge Small
I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
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Myself Reputation Thinking
Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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Assasination Harmony Instrument
Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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Ambition Himself Name Patriot
Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
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Entertainment Innocent Military Popular
LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss; yet when lost it is not missed.
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Body Life Missing Spiritual
Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
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Black Color Optimism White
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
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Evil Existence Philosophy Replacement
Responsibility, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one’s neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.
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Astrology Custom Easy Fate God Responsibility
Prescription: A physician’s guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
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Harm Patient Prescription Situation
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
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

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

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