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Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

Ambrose Bierce

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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Age Believe Fools Hard Thinking Wisdom Young
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
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
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Food Place Religion Service State
Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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Labor Pregnant Property
War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
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God Place Teaching War
Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
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Children Cold Compassionate Feeling Love Mom
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
Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
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Avoid People Selfish
The covers of this book are too far apart.
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Book Distance
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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Brain Science 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
He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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Alarm Difficult Himself Thinking
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
Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
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Boundary Divorce Relationship
Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
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Ambition Death Desire Enemy Friendship
Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.
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Belief Manifestation Opinion Statement

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

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