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

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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
Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman’s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
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Country Fools Freedom Instrument Power
LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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Law Oneself Skills
Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
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Avoid People Selfish
Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
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Entertainment Innocent Military Popular
True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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Man Philosophy True Woman
RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.
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Delusion Experience Observation Reflection Save
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
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
Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
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Appearance Art Color Fools White
Consul – in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.
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Administration Condition Country Failure Himself Leaving Person Politics Security
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
Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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Betrayal Character Cheating Virtue
Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
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Division Domain Forever Hope Present
Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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Disguised Patience Virtue
Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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Death Edit Revision Sin

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

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