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

Ambrose Bierce

True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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Man Philosophy True Woman
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Love Marriage Sanity Temporary
The covers of this book are too far apart.
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Book Distance
War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
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God Place Teaching War
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
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
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
Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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Disguise Education Understand Wisdom
Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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Machine Technology Transformation
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
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
Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
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Confession Law Prayer Universe Worth
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
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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Act Repeat Word
Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
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Final Funny Rich
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

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