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Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

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Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
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Boundary Divorce Relationship
Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
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Brain Fear Idiot One Liner
Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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Disguised Patience Virtue
RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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Assassination Character Weapon
War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
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God Place Teaching War
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
REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.
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Art Charm Measurement Nature Worm
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
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
The covers of this book are too far apart.
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Book Distance
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
Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots.
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Appearance Earth Face Genius God Leaving Nature Original Root Woman
Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
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Final Funny Rich
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
Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
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Death Money Person Praise Wealth
LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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Law Oneself Skills

Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

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