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Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.

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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
Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
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Best Gift God Man
Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor.
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Believe Divine Need Neighbor Religion Spiritual
Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
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Final Funny Rich
Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
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Beautiful Belief Optimism Ugly
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
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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Device Profit Responsibility
Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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Disguised Patience Virtue
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
True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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Man Philosophy True Woman
Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
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Black Color Optimism White
I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
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Myself Reputation Thinking
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
Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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Machine Technology Transformation
Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
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Entertainment Innocent Military Popular
Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
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Brain Fear Idiot One Liner

Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.

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