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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.

Ambrose Bierce

April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
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Add Fools Funny Himself Time
War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
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God Place Teaching War
To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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Accident Eyes Failure Perspective Success
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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Fear Hope Ignorance Known Religion
Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else
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Electricity Natural Reason
PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another.
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Body Fortune Goodness Purity Uncomfortable
Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man – who has no gills.
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Body Man Ocean World
The partisan strife in which the people of the country are permitted to periodically engage does not tend to the development of ugly traits of character, but merely discloses those that preexist.
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Country Development Engagement Existence People Strife
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
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
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
Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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Machine Technology Transformation
The covers of this book are too far apart.
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Book Distance
Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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Death Edit Revision Sin
The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.
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Affection Creature Dog World
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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Brain Science Thinking

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