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In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.

Ambrose Bierce

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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Fear Hope Ignorance Known Religion
April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
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Add Fools Funny Himself Time
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
To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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Accident Eyes Failure Perspective Success
Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
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Final Funny Rich
He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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Alarm Difficult Himself Thinking
Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
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Black Color Optimism White
Life – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
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Body Decay Life Selfish
Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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Ambition Himself Name Patriot
Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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Death End Estate Himself
Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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Death Edit Revision Sin
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
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
The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
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Confirm Degree Democracy Reward
The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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Fall Hard Himself Man
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

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