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

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Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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Drive Slave Substitute
REFLECTION,n: An Action of the mind whereby we obtain a clearer view of our relation to the things of yesterday and are able to avoid the perils that we shall not again encounter.
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Avoid Mindset Ourselves Reflection Relationship
Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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Disappointment Perspective Time
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
Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
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Animal Digest Eat Goodness Man Science
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
Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
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Appearance Art Color Fools White
You don’t have to be stupid to be a Christian, but it probably helps.
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Help Religion Stupidity
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
To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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Accident Eyes Failure Perspective Success
Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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Death Edit Revision Sin
Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
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Democracy Lamb Lunch Vote Wolf
Scriptures – The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
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Faith Holy Ourselves Religion Scripture Writing
There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two clarinets.
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Instrument Worst
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
Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
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Final Funny Rich

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

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