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Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.

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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
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
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
Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
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Democracy Lamb Lunch Vote Wolf
April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
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Add Fools Funny Himself Time
Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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Drive Slave Substitute
Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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Death End Estate Himself
Alliance – in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other’s pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
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Each Other Hands International Separate Thief Union
You don’t have to be stupid to be a Christian, but it probably helps.
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Help Religion Stupidity
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
Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
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Black Color Optimism White
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
There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two clarinets.
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Instrument Worst
Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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Leadership Philosophy Road
Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
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Final Funny Rich
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

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