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Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

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Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
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Entertainment Innocent Military Popular
Life – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
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Body Decay Life Selfish
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
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
The covers of this book are too far apart.
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Book Distance
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
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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Device Profit Responsibility
Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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Himself Listening Person Talk
Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
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Brain Fear Idiot One Liner
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
Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman’s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
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Country Fools Freedom Instrument Power
To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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Accident Eyes Failure Perspective Success
Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.
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Governement Party Prevent Rival Run
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
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
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Fake Fools History Important Rule

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