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RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.

Ambrose Bierce

In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.
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Activity Diversity Equality Heart Human
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
Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
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Blessing Exception Leaving Money
Life – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
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Body Decay Life Selfish
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
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
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
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Food Place Religion Service State
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
There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don’t know.
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Adventure Knowledge Old Sun Wisdom
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
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Analysis Delusion Himself Philosophy
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
Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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Drive Slave Substitute
The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
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Confirm Degree Democracy Reward
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
The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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Fall Hard Himself Man
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
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Angry Best Regret Talk Yourself

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