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Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.

Ambrose Bierce

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
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
Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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Labor Pregnant Property
You don’t have to be stupid to be a Christian, but it probably helps.
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Help Religion Stupidity
Forgetfulness – a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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Conscience Destitution Forget Gift God
The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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Fall Hard Himself Man
MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people’s beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.
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Belief Body History Invention Original People True
IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
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Fact Imagination Lying Poet
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Love Marriage Sanity Temporary
Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
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Average Perseverance Success Virtue
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
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Analysis Delusion Himself Philosophy
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
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
Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
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Avoid People Selfish
He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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Alarm Difficult Himself Thinking

Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.

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