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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

Ambrose Bierce

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
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
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Food Place Religion Service State
What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.
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Believe Country Democracy Oneself Ruin
To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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Accident Eyes Failure Perspective Success
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
Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
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Entertainment Innocent Military Popular
Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
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Average Perseverance Success Virtue
Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
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Black Color Optimism White
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
The covers of this book are too far apart.
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Book Distance
Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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Assasination Harmony Instrument
Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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Coward Emergency Himself Legs 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
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
Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
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Brain Fear Idiot One Liner
He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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Alarm Difficult Himself Thinking

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