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Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

Ambrose Bierce

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
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Food Place Religion Service State
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
There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two clarinets.
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Instrument Worst
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
Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
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Average Perseverance Success Virtue
Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
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Children Cold Compassionate Feeling Love Mom
I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
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Myself Reputation Thinking
Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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Death End Estate Himself
April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
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Add Fools Funny Himself Time
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
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Art Human Limitation Reason Thinking Understand
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
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
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
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
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

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

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