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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.

Ambrose Bierce

To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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Accident Eyes Failure Perspective Success
Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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Happiness Temptation Weakness
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
Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
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Avoid People Selfish
Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots.
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Appearance Earth Face Genius God Leaving Nature Original Root Woman
Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box.
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Box Defend Democracy Stage
RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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Assassination Character Weapon
Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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Death End Estate Himself
Life – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
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Body Decay Life Selfish
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
Scriptures – The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
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Faith Holy Ourselves Religion Scripture Writing
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
Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.
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Age Head Himself See Thinking Wisdom
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
The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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Fall Hard Himself Man
Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
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Brain Fear Idiot One Liner

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.

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