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RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.

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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
Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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Arrangement Classification Ignorance Knowledge Small
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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Device Profit Responsibility
True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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Man Philosophy True Woman
The covers of this book are too far apart.
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Book Distance
The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
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Confirm Degree Democracy Reward
Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
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Division Domain Forever Hope Present
To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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Accident Eyes Failure Perspective Success
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
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
Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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Assasination Harmony Instrument
Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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Ambition Himself Name Patriot
Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
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Affair Assurance Future Happiness Prosperity Time
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
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
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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Brain Science Thinking

RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.

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