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Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.

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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
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
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
ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
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Blacksmith Cloth Kind Man
Distance, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs and keep.
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Call Distance Poor Rich Willing
Forgetfulness – a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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Conscience Destitution Forget Gift God
To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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Accident Eyes Failure Perspective Success
Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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Leadership Philosophy Road
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
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Food Place Religion Service State
Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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Labor Pregnant Property
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
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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Fear Hope Ignorance Known Religion
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

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