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Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

Ambrose Bierce

The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.
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Affection Creature Dog World
Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
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Final Funny Rich
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
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
ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.
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Concession Demand Resort
He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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Alarm Difficult Himself Thinking
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
Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
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Ambition Death Desire Enemy Friendship
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
Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
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Blessing Exception Leaving Money
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
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
To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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Accident Eyes Failure Perspective Success
War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
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God Place Teaching War
Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
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Avoid People Selfish

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