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

Ambrose Bierce

Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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Labor Pregnant Property
IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
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Fact Imagination Lying Poet
April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
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Add Fools Funny Himself Time
Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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God Man One Liner Reason Sleep
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
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
There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two clarinets.
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Instrument Worst
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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Brain Science Thinking
The covers of this book are too far apart.
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Book Distance
The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
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Confirm Degree Democracy Reward
The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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Fall Hard Himself Man
Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
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Ambition Death Desire Enemy Friendship
The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.
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Affection Creature Dog World
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
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

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