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LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss; yet when lost it is not missed.

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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
REFLECTION,n: An Action of the mind whereby we obtain a clearer view of our relation to the things of yesterday and are able to avoid the perils that we shall not again encounter.
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Avoid Mindset Ourselves Reflection Relationship
Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
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Avoid People Selfish
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
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Food Place Religion Service State
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
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Art Human Limitation Reason Thinking Understand
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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Brain Science Thinking
True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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Man Philosophy True Woman
Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else
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Electricity Natural Reason
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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Degree Independence Intellectual
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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Act Repeat Word
PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another.
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Body Fortune Goodness Purity Uncomfortable
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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Fear Hope Ignorance Known Religion
IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
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Fact Imagination Lying Poet
The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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Fall Hard Himself Man
Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
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Confession Law Prayer Universe Worth
The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.
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Affection Creature Dog World

LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss; yet when lost it is not missed.

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LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss; yet when lost it is not missed.

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