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April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.

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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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Act Repeat Word
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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Device Profit Responsibility
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
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
Life – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
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Body Decay Life Selfish
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Love Marriage Sanity Temporary
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
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
Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman’s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
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Country Fools Freedom Instrument Power
Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.
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Governement Party Prevent Rival Run
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
Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots.
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Appearance Earth Face Genius God Leaving Nature Original Root Woman
I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
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Myself Reputation Thinking
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
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Convincing Doubt Enemy Man Person
Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
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Entertainment Innocent Military Popular

April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.

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