Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize.
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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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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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LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
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He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity. A fool is a natural proselyte, but he must be caught young, for his convictions, unlike those of the wise, harden with age.
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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
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True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.
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They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.
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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.
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To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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Forgetfulness – a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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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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