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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Ambrose Bierce

Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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Brain Science Thinking
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
Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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Himself Listening Person Talk
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
IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
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Fact Imagination Lying Poet
Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
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Boundary Divorce Relationship
April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
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Add Fools Funny Himself Time
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
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
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
Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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Coward Emergency Himself Legs Thinking
To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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Accident Eyes Failure Perspective Success
RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.
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Delusion Experience Observation Reflection Save
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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Fear Hope Ignorance Known Religion
Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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Machine Technology Transformation
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

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

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