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Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.

Ambrose Bierce

Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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Happiness Temptation Weakness
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
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Fake Fools History Important Rule
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
Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
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Community Marriage Master Mistress Slave
Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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Disappointment Perspective Time
ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.
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Concession Demand Resort
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
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
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
Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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Himself Listening Person Talk
He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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Alarm Difficult Himself Thinking
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
In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.
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Activity Diversity Equality Heart Human
RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.
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Delusion Experience Observation Reflection Save
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
Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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Assasination Harmony Instrument

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