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

Ambrose Bierce

Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
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Final Funny Rich
IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
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Fact Imagination Lying Poet
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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Degree Independence Intellectual
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
Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
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Boundary Divorce Relationship
RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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Assassination Character Weapon
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
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Advantage Affair Interest Principle Private
Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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Ambition Himself Name Patriot
MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavour to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with.
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Brain Fact Himself Mindset Mysterious Nature
Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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Himself Listening Person Talk
Life – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
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Body Decay Life Selfish
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
Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
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Black Color Optimism White
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
Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
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Appearance Art Color Fools White
Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
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Beautiful Death Essential Example Poison

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