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He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.

Ambrose Bierce

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
Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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Assasination Harmony Instrument
Scriptures – The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
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Faith Holy Ourselves Religion Scripture Writing
Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
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Boundary Divorce Relationship
Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.
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Age Head Himself See Thinking Wisdom
There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don’t know.
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Adventure Knowledge Old Sun Wisdom
Responsibility, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one’s neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.
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Astrology Custom Easy Fate God Responsibility
Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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Disguised Patience Virtue
The covers of this book are too far apart.
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Book Distance
Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
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Affair Assurance Future Happiness Prosperity Time
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
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
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Evil Existence Philosophy Replacement
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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Device Profit Responsibility
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
I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
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Myself Reputation Thinking

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