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Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.

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RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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Assassination Character Weapon
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
Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman’s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
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Country Fools Freedom Instrument Power
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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Degree Independence Intellectual
You don’t have to be stupid to be a Christian, but it probably helps.
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Help Religion Stupidity
ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.
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Concession Demand Resort
In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.
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Activity Diversity Equality Heart Human
True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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Man Philosophy True Woman
Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
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Brain Fear Idiot One Liner
Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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Happiness Temptation Weakness
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
Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
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Best Gift God Man
Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
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Avoid People Selfish
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
PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.
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Contrast Fall Sense
Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
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Beautiful Belief Optimism Ugly

Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.

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