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Consul – in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.

Ambrose Bierce

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
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
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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Act Repeat Word
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
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Convincing Doubt Enemy Man Person
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
ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
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Blacksmith Cloth Kind Man
LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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Law Oneself Skills
Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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Himself Listening Person Talk
Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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Drive Slave Substitute
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Love Marriage Sanity Temporary
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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Degree Independence Intellectual
RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.
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Delusion Experience Observation Reflection Save
Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
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Final Funny Rich
PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.
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Contrast Fall Sense
To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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Accident Eyes Failure Perspective Success
Prescription: A physician’s guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
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Harm Patient Prescription Situation

Consul – in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.

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