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

Ambrose Bierce

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
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
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
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Convincing Doubt Enemy Man Person
ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.
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Concession Demand Resort
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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Brain Science Thinking
Distance, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs and keep.
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Call Distance Poor Rich Willing
Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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Disguised Patience Virtue
Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.
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Breathe Conversation Listening Vocal
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
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
Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.
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Governement Party Prevent Rival Run
Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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Disappointment Perspective Time
Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
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Best Gift God Man
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Love Marriage Sanity Temporary
Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
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Brain Fear Idiot One Liner
Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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Himself Listening Person Talk

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