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

Ambrose Bierce

Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.
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Age Head Himself See Thinking Wisdom
Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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Drive Slave Substitute
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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Degree Independence Intellectual
I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
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Myself Reputation Thinking
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Love Marriage Sanity Temporary
The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.
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Affection Creature Dog World
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
True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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Man Philosophy True Woman
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
Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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Machine Technology Transformation
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
Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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Disguise Education Understand Wisdom
RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.
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Delusion Experience Observation Reflection Save
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
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Evil Existence Philosophy Replacement
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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Brain Science Thinking

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