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Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

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Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
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Death Money Person Praise Wealth
You don’t have to be stupid to be a Christian, but it probably helps.
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Help Religion Stupidity
Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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Himself Listening Person Talk
Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else
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Electricity Natural Reason
Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
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Blessing Exception Leaving Money
Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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Ambition Himself Name Patriot
Responsibility, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one’s neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.
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Astrology Custom Easy Fate God Responsibility
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
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
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
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Advantage Affair Interest Principle Private
Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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Assasination Harmony Instrument
In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.
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Activity Diversity Equality Heart Human
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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Act Repeat Word
An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
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Advantage Election Good Stolen
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
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

Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

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