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Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.

Ambrose Bierce

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
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
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
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
Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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Drive Slave Substitute
Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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Arrangement Classification Ignorance Knowledge Small
The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
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Confirm Degree Democracy Reward
PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.
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Contrast Fall Sense
Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
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Avoid People Selfish
Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
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Best Gift God 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
Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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Machine Technology Transformation
Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else
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Electricity Natural Reason
Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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God Man One Liner Reason Sleep
April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
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Add Fools Funny Himself Time
Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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Betrayal Character Cheating Virtue

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