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Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.

Ambrose Bierce

LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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Law Oneself Skills
Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots.
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Appearance Earth Face Genius God Leaving Nature Original Root Woman
Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
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Final Funny Rich
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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Brain Science Thinking
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
Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
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Ambition Death Desire Enemy Friendship
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
ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
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Blacksmith Cloth Kind Man
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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Device Profit Responsibility
Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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Ambition Himself Name Patriot
April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
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Add Fools Funny Himself Time
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
In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.
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Activity Diversity Equality Heart Human
Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
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Entertainment Innocent Military Popular
He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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Alarm Difficult Himself Thinking
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

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