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Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

Ambrose Bierce

Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
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Beautiful Belief Optimism Ugly
Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
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Brain Fear Idiot One Liner
LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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Law Oneself Skills
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Love Marriage Sanity Temporary
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
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
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
A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.
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Marriage People Person Support
Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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Machine Technology Transformation
An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
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Advantage Election Good Stolen
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
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Analysis Delusion Himself Philosophy
Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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Assasination Harmony Instrument
Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.
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Breathe Conversation Listening Vocal
Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
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Average Perseverance Success Virtue
To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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Accident Eyes Failure Perspective Success
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

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

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