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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Ambrose Bierce

Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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Death End Estate Himself
Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman’s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
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Country Fools Freedom Instrument Power
Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.
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Breathe Conversation Listening Vocal
Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
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Appearance Art Color Fools White
The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.
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Affection Creature Dog World
Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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Drive Slave Substitute
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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Device Profit Responsibility
Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
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Animal Digest Eat Goodness Man Science
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
They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.
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Animal Born Egg Loud Lying
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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Act Repeat Word
Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots.
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Appearance Earth Face Genius God Leaving Nature Original Root Woman
ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
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Blacksmith Cloth Kind Man
Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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Assasination Harmony Instrument
Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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Himself Listening Person Talk
What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.
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Believe Country Democracy Oneself Ruin

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

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