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Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.

Ambrose Bierce

You don’t have to be stupid to be a Christian, but it probably helps.
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Help Religion Stupidity
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
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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Appearance Art Color Fools White
Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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Assasination Harmony Instrument
Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
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Boundary Divorce Relationship
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
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
Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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Death End Estate Himself
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Love Marriage Sanity Temporary
Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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God Man One Liner Reason Sleep
Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
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Entertainment Innocent Military Popular
Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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Disguised Patience Virtue
The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
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Confirm Degree Democracy Reward
True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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Man Philosophy True Woman
Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
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Beautiful Belief Optimism Ugly
I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
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Myself Reputation Thinking

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