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Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else

Ambrose Bierce

Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
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Best Gift God Man
LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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Law Oneself Skills
Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
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Death Money Person Praise Wealth
Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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Coward Emergency Himself Legs Thinking
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
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Love Marriage Sanity Temporary
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
Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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Death Edit Revision Sin
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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Degree Independence Intellectual
Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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Arrangement Classification Ignorance Knowledge Small
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
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
Laughter, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.
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Company Interior Laughter Noise
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
Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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Happiness Temptation Weakness
RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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Assassination Character Weapon

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