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

Ambrose Bierce

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
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
War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
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God Place Teaching War
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
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Advantage Affair Interest Principle Private
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
LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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Law Oneself Skills
Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
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Final Funny Rich
Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.
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Belief Manifestation Opinion Statement
The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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Fall Hard Himself Man
Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
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Animal Digest Eat Goodness Man Science
Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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Happiness Temptation Weakness
Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
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Appearance Art Color Fools White
They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.
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Animal Born Egg Loud Lying
An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
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Advantage Election Good Stolen
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

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