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

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Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.
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Governement Party Prevent Rival Run
Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
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Entertainment Innocent Military Popular
Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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Death End Estate Himself
Forgetfulness – a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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Conscience Destitution Forget Gift God
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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Act Repeat Word
The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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Fall Hard Himself Man
Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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Disguise Education Understand Wisdom
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
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
Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
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Avoid People Selfish
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
Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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Machine Technology Transformation
To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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Accident Eyes Failure Perspective Success
Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box.
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Box Defend Democracy Stage
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
PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another.
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Body Fortune Goodness Purity Uncomfortable

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

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