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Ambrose Bierce

April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
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Add Fools Funny Himself Time
Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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Disappointment Perspective Time
Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
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Avoid People Selfish
Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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Leadership Philosophy Road
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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Act Repeat Word
Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else
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Electricity Natural Reason
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
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Care Civilization Government Intelligence Ourselves Reward
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
Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
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Division Domain Forever Hope Present
Life – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
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Body Decay Life Selfish
ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
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Blacksmith Cloth Kind Man
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
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
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
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
An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
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Advantage Election Good Stolen

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