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IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.

Ambrose Bierce

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
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Analysis Delusion Himself Philosophy
Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
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Boundary Divorce Relationship
Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
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Beautiful Belief Optimism Ugly
Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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Disappointment Perspective Time
He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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Alarm Difficult Himself Thinking
Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
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Entertainment Innocent Military Popular
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
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
Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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Ambition Himself Name Patriot
Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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Coward Emergency Himself Legs Thinking
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
True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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Man Philosophy True Woman
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
Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
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Democracy Lamb Lunch Vote Wolf
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
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Care Civilization Government Intelligence Ourselves Reward
ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.
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Concession Demand Resort

IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.

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