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

Ambrose Bierce

Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else
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Electricity Natural Reason
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
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
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
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Food Place Religion Service State
The partisan strife in which the people of the country are permitted to periodically engage does not tend to the development of ugly traits of character, but merely discloses those that preexist.
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Country Development Engagement Existence People Strife
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
Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
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Avoid People Selfish
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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Administration Condition Country Failure Himself Leaving Person Politics Security
I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
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Myself Reputation Thinking
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
The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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Fall Hard Himself Man
True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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Man Philosophy True Woman
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
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
To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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Accident Eyes Failure Perspective Success
Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
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Best Gift God Man

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

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

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