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RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.

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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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Ambition Himself Name Patriot
Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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Assasination Harmony Instrument
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Love Marriage Sanity Temporary
Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
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Beautiful Death Essential Example Poison
IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
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Fact Imagination Lying Poet
He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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Alarm Difficult Himself Thinking
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
In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.
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Activity Diversity Equality Heart Human
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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Act Repeat Word
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
RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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Assassination Character Weapon
Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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Machine Technology Transformation
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
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
Prescription: A physician’s guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
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Harm Patient Prescription Situation

RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.

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