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Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.

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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
Distance, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs and keep.
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Call Distance Poor Rich Willing
War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
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God Place Teaching War
Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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Drive Slave Substitute
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
Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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God Man One Liner Reason Sleep
Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
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Avoid People Selfish
An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
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Advantage Election Good Stolen
Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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Happiness Temptation Weakness
ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.
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Concession Demand Resort
Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize.
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Country Discover Fertilization Person
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
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
MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people’s beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.
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Belief Body History Invention Original People True
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
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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Device Profit Responsibility

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