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Don’t steal; thou’lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Ambrose Bierce

Don’t steal; thou’lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
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Business Cheating Complete Steal Success
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
Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
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Division Domain Forever Hope Present
Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
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Beautiful Belief Optimism Ugly
Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
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Animal Digest Eat Goodness Man Science
Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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Disappointment Perspective Time
Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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Labor Pregnant Property
Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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Assasination Harmony Instrument
Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else
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Electricity Natural Reason
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
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
He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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Alarm Difficult Himself Thinking
Laughter, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.
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Company Interior Laughter Noise
Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
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Average Perseverance Success Virtue
Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
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Blessing Exception Leaving Money
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

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