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The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.

Ambrose Bierce

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
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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Act Repeat Word
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
Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
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Brain Fear Idiot One Liner
The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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Fall Hard Himself Man
Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.
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Age Head Himself See Thinking Wisdom
Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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God Man One Liner Reason Sleep
April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
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Add Fools Funny Himself Time
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
An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
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Advantage Election Good Stolen
PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another.
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Body Fortune Goodness Purity Uncomfortable
Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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Happiness Temptation Weakness
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
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
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
Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
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Boundary Divorce Relationship

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