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You don’t have to be stupid to be a Christian, but it probably helps.

Ambrose Bierce

Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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Arrangement Classification Ignorance Knowledge Small
Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
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Affair Assurance Future Happiness Prosperity Time
Life – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
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Body Decay Life Selfish
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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Act Repeat Word
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
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Fake Fools History Important Rule
Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
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Beautiful Death Essential Example Poison
The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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Fall Hard Himself Man
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Love Marriage Sanity Temporary
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
REFLECTION,n: An Action of the mind whereby we obtain a clearer view of our relation to the things of yesterday and are able to avoid the perils that we shall not again encounter.
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Avoid Mindset Ourselves Reflection Relationship
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
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
Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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Labor Pregnant Property
Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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Disguised Patience Virtue
Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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Death End Estate Himself
The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
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Confirm Degree Democracy Reward

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