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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.

Ambrose Bierce

I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
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Myself Reputation Thinking
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
Laughter, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.
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Company Interior Laughter Noise
Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
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Boundary Divorce Relationship
Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
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Black Color Optimism White
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Love Marriage Sanity Temporary
The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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Fall Hard Himself Man
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
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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Fear Hope Ignorance Known Religion
They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.
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Animal Born Egg Loud Lying
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
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Analysis Delusion Himself Philosophy
Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
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Blessing Exception Leaving Money
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
Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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Machine Technology Transformation
Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
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Best Gift God Man
ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
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Blacksmith Cloth Kind Man

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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