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Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
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Death Money Person Praise Wealth
To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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Accident Eyes Failure Perspective Success
You don’t have to be stupid to be a Christian, but it probably helps.
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Help Religion Stupidity
Life – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
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Body Decay Life Selfish
Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
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Entertainment Innocent Military Popular
He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity. A fool is a natural proselyte, but he must be caught young, for his convictions, unlike those of the wise, harden with age.
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Age Believe Fools Hard Thinking Wisdom Young
Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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Drive Slave Substitute
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
Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
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Final Funny Rich
He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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Alarm Difficult Himself Thinking
The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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Fall Hard Himself Man
LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss; yet when lost it is not missed.
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Body Life Missing Spiritual
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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Book Distance
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

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