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Prescription: A physician’s guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.

Ambrose Bierce

Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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God Man One Liner Reason Sleep
They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.
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Animal Born Egg Loud Lying
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
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
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Food Place Religion Service State
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
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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Degree Independence Intellectual
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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Act Repeat Word
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
Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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Assasination Harmony Instrument
The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.
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Affection Creature Dog World
Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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Himself Listening Person Talk
Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.
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Belief Manifestation Opinion Statement
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
ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
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Blacksmith Cloth Kind Man
April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
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Add Fools Funny Himself Time
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

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