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Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

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Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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Death Edit Revision Sin
RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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Assassination Character Weapon
PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another.
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Body Fortune Goodness Purity Uncomfortable
Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
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Best Gift God Man
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
War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
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God Place Teaching War
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
An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
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Advantage Election Good Stolen
He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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Alarm Difficult Himself 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
April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
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Add Fools Funny Himself Time
Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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Ambition Himself Name Patriot
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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Fear Hope Ignorance Known Religion
Distance, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs and keep.
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Call Distance Poor Rich Willing
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
Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots.
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Appearance Earth Face Genius God Leaving Nature Original Root Woman

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

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