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Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.

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Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
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Avoid People Selfish
IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
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Fact Imagination Lying Poet
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
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Food Place Religion Service State
I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
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Myself Reputation Thinking
Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.
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Belief Manifestation Opinion Statement
Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
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Average Perseverance Success Virtue
Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
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Division Domain Forever Hope Present
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
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
Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
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Death Money Person Praise Wealth
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
RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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Assassination Character Weapon
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
There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two clarinets.
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Instrument Worst
Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
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Beautiful Belief Optimism Ugly

Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.

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