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

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Prescription: A physician’s guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
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Harm Patient Prescription Situation
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Love Marriage Sanity Temporary
Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize.
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Country Discover Fertilization Person
LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss; yet when lost it is not missed.
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Body Life Missing Spiritual
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
Life – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
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Body Decay Life Selfish
Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
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Children Cold Compassionate Feeling Love Mom
Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
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Animal Digest Eat Goodness Man Science
To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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Accident Eyes Failure Perspective Success
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
The partisan strife in which the people of the country are permitted to periodically engage does not tend to the development of ugly traits of character, but merely discloses those that preexist.
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Country Development Engagement Existence People Strife
REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.
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Art Charm Measurement Nature Worm
LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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Law Oneself Skills
Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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Disguised Patience Virtue
Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
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Best Gift God 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

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

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