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Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

Ambrose Bierce

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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Country Discover Fertilization Person
Life – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
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Body Decay Life Selfish
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
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Care Civilization Government Intelligence Ourselves Reward
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
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
Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
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Black Color Optimism White
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
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
Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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Labor Pregnant Property
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
Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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Machine Technology Transformation
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Love Marriage Sanity Temporary
Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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Death End Estate Himself
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
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Art Human Limitation Reason Thinking Understand
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
Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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Drive Slave Substitute

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

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