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Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.

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Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
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Avoid People Selfish
ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.
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Concession Demand Resort
Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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Coward Emergency Himself Legs Thinking
Consul – in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.
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Administration Condition Country Failure Himself Leaving Person Politics Security
Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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God Man One Liner Reason Sleep
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
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Convincing Doubt Enemy Man Person
RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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Assassination Character Weapon
You don’t have to be stupid to be a Christian, but it probably helps.
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Help Religion Stupidity
Alliance – in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other’s pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
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Each Other Hands International Separate Thief Union
There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two clarinets.
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Instrument Worst
The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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Fall Hard Himself Man
Don’t steal; thou’lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
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Business Cheating Complete Steal Success
There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don’t know.
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Adventure Knowledge Old Sun Wisdom
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
Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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Disguised Patience Virtue
Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
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Brain Fear Idiot One Liner
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
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Art Human Limitation Reason Thinking Understand
An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
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Advantage Election Good Stolen
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
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
Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man – who has no gills.
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Body Man Ocean World
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
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Evil Existence Philosophy Replacement
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Love Marriage Sanity Temporary
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
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
ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
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Blacksmith Cloth Kind Man
The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
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Confirm Degree Democracy Reward

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