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Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else

Ambrose Bierce

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
Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
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Average Perseverance Success Virtue
Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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Labor Pregnant Property
Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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Assasination Harmony Instrument
He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity. A fool is a natural proselyte, but he must be caught young, for his convictions, unlike those of the wise, harden with age.
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Age Believe Fools Hard Thinking Wisdom Young
April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
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Add Fools Funny Himself Time
War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
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God Place Teaching War
Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
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Entertainment Innocent Military Popular
Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
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Death Money Person Praise Wealth
IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
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Fact Imagination Lying Poet
Forgetfulness – a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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Conscience Destitution Forget Gift God
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
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
Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
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Boundary Divorce Relationship
ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
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Blacksmith Cloth Kind Man
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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Act Repeat Word

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