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Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
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Avoid People Selfish
Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
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Final Funny Rich
Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
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Average Perseverance Success Virtue
Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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Death Edit Revision Sin
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
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
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Love Marriage Sanity Temporary
Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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Labor Pregnant Property
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
I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
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Myself Reputation Thinking
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
Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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Ambition Himself Name Patriot
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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Device Profit Responsibility
Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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Coward Emergency Himself Legs Thinking
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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Brain Science Thinking

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