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Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

Ambrose Bierce

True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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Man Philosophy True Woman
Forgetfulness – a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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Conscience Destitution Forget Gift God
April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
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Add Fools Funny Himself Time
Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
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Best Gift God Man
Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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Assasination Harmony Instrument
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
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Food Place Religion Service State
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
MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavour to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with.
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Brain Fact Himself Mindset Mysterious Nature
They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.
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Animal Born Egg Loud Lying
Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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Arrangement Classification Ignorance Knowledge Small
There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don’t know.
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Adventure Knowledge Old Sun Wisdom
Life – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
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Body Decay Life Selfish
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
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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Degree Independence Intellectual
Scriptures – The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
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Faith Holy Ourselves Religion Scripture Writing
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
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Convincing Doubt Enemy Man Person

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