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

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Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
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Ambition Death Desire Enemy Friendship
Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
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Beautiful Belief Optimism Ugly
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
To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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Accident Eyes Failure Perspective Success
The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
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Confirm Degree Democracy Reward
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
RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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Assassination Character Weapon
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
Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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Arrangement Classification Ignorance Knowledge Small
Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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Assasination Harmony Instrument
Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
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Final Funny Rich
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
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Advantage Affair Interest Principle Private
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
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Food Place Religion Service State
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
Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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Happiness Temptation Weakness
You don’t have to be stupid to be a Christian, but it probably helps.
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Help Religion Stupidity

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

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