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Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.

Ambrose Bierce

I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
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Myself Reputation Thinking
The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.
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Affection Creature Dog World
Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
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Blessing Exception Leaving Money
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
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
Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box.
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Box Defend Democracy Stage
War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
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God Place Teaching War
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
Prescription: A physician’s guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
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Harm Patient Prescription Situation
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
Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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Labor Pregnant Property
Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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Disappointment Perspective Time
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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Device Profit Responsibility
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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Body Life Missing Spiritual
RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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Assassination Character Weapon
There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don’t know.
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Adventure Knowledge Old Sun Wisdom

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