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ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.

Ambrose Bierce

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
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
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Care Civilization Government Intelligence Ourselves Reward
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
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
Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
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Children Cold Compassionate Feeling Love Mom
Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
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Black Color Optimism White
The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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Fall Hard Himself Man
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
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
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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Brain Science Thinking
Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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Drive Slave Substitute
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
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Angry Best Regret Talk Yourself
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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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
RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.
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Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
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