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Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

Ambrose Bierce

PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.
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Contrast Fall Sense
You don’t have to be stupid to be a Christian, but it probably helps.
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Help Religion Stupidity
The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.
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Affection Creature Dog World
LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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Law Oneself Skills
Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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Disappointment Perspective Time
Alliance – in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other’s pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
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Each Other Hands International Separate Thief Union
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
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
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
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Art Human Limitation Reason Thinking Understand
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
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
Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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Assasination Harmony Instrument
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
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
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Fake Fools History Important Rule
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
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Convincing Doubt Enemy Man Person

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