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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

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
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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Degree Independence Intellectual
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
There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two clarinets.
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Instrument Worst
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
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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Act Repeat Word
They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.
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Animal Born Egg Loud Lying
Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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Death Edit Revision Sin
Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
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Boundary Divorce Relationship
Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else
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Electricity Natural Reason
You don’t have to be stupid to be a Christian, but it probably helps.
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Help Religion Stupidity
The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.
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Affection Creature Dog World
True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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Man Philosophy True Woman
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
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Love Marriage Sanity Temporary
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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Device Profit Responsibility

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