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Prescription: A physician’s guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.

Ambrose Bierce

Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor.
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Believe Divine Need Neighbor Religion Spiritual
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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Fear Hope Ignorance Known Religion
Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
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Democracy Lamb Lunch Vote Wolf
The partisan strife in which the people of the country are permitted to periodically engage does not tend to the development of ugly traits of character, but merely discloses those that preexist.
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Country Development Engagement Existence People Strife
The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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Fall Hard Himself Man
Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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God Man One Liner Reason Sleep
Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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Betrayal Character Cheating Virtue
Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.
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Age Head Himself See Thinking Wisdom
Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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Machine Technology Transformation
REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.
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Art Charm Measurement Nature Worm
He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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Alarm Difficult Himself Thinking
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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Device Profit Responsibility
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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Degree Independence Intellectual
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
Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
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Avoid People Selfish
Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
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Boundary Divorce Relationship

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