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Responsibility, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one’s neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.

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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
Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.
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Belief Manifestation Opinion Statement
PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.
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Contrast Fall Sense
Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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Death End Estate Himself
Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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Leadership Philosophy Road
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
Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
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Final Funny Rich
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
The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.
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Affection Creature Dog World
War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
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God Place Teaching War
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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Act Repeat Word
Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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Drive Slave Substitute
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
LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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Law Oneself Skills
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
You don’t have to be stupid to be a Christian, but it probably helps.
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Help Religion Stupidity

Responsibility, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one’s neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.

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Responsibility, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one’s neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.

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