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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

What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.
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Believe Country Democracy Oneself Ruin
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
RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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Assassination Character Weapon
PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.
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Contrast Fall Sense
Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
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Average Perseverance Success Virtue
Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
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Animal Digest Eat Goodness Man Science
Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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Death End Estate Himself
IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
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Fact Imagination Lying Poet
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
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
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Care Civilization Government Intelligence Ourselves Reward
Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
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Boundary Divorce Relationship
Consul – in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.
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Administration Condition Country Failure Himself Leaving Person Politics Security
Alliance – in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other’s pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
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Each Other Hands International Separate Thief Union
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Love Marriage Sanity Temporary
Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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God Man One Liner Reason Sleep
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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Brain Science Thinking

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

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