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Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.

Ambrose Bierce

Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.
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Breathe Conversation Listening Vocal
Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else
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Electricity Natural Reason
Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
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Community Marriage Master Mistress Slave
Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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Betrayal Character Cheating Virtue
Forgetfulness – a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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Conscience Destitution Forget Gift God
Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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Labor Pregnant Property
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
Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
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Black Color Optimism White
MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavour to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with.
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Brain Fact Himself Mindset Mysterious Nature
Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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Machine Technology Transformation
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
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
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
RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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Assassination Character Weapon
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

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