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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

Ambrose Bierce

Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
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Blessing Exception Leaving Money
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
Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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Death End Estate Himself
Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
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Final Funny Rich
Scriptures – The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
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Faith Holy Ourselves Religion Scripture Writing
Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man – who has no gills.
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Body Man Ocean World
I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
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Myself Reputation Thinking
REFLECTION,n: An Action of the mind whereby we obtain a clearer view of our relation to the things of yesterday and are able to avoid the perils that we shall not again encounter.
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Avoid Mindset Ourselves Reflection Relationship
You don’t have to be stupid to be a Christian, but it probably helps.
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Help Religion Stupidity
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
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Advantage Affair Interest Principle Private
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Love Marriage Sanity Temporary
Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
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Beautiful Death Essential Example Poison
IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
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Fact Imagination Lying Poet
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
REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.
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Art Charm Measurement Nature Worm
Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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Arrangement Classification Ignorance Knowledge Small

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