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Forgetfulness – a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

Ambrose Bierce

Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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Death End Estate Himself
There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two clarinets.
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Instrument Worst
Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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Disguise Education Understand Wisdom
Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
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Animal Digest Eat Goodness Man Science
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
MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people’s beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.
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Belief Body History Invention Original People True
Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
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Children Cold Compassionate Feeling Love Mom
Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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Disappointment Perspective Time
Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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Ambition Himself Name Patriot
The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
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Confirm Degree Democracy Reward
Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
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Brain Fear Idiot One Liner
Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
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Average Perseverance Success Virtue
PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.
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Contrast Fall Sense
Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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Happiness Temptation Weakness
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
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Analysis Delusion Himself Philosophy
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

Forgetfulness – a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

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