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REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.

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Don’t steal; thou’lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
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Business Cheating Complete Steal Success
Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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Coward Emergency Himself Legs Thinking
A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.
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Marriage People Person Support
Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
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Black Color Optimism White
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
Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
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Beautiful Death Essential Example Poison
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
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Evil Existence Philosophy Replacement
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
Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
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Children Cold Compassionate Feeling Love Mom
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
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Advantage Affair Interest Principle Private
The partisan strife in which the people of the country are permitted to periodically engage does not tend to the development of ugly traits of character, but merely discloses those that preexist.
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Country Development Engagement Existence People Strife
You don’t have to be stupid to be a Christian, but it probably helps.
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Help Religion Stupidity
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
Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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Drive Slave Substitute
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
The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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Fall Hard Himself Man

REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.

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REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.

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