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

Ambrose Bierce

Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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Leadership Philosophy Road
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
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Food Place Religion Service State
He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity. A fool is a natural proselyte, but he must be caught young, for his convictions, unlike those of the wise, harden with age.
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Age Believe Fools Hard Thinking Wisdom Young
Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
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Brain Fear Idiot One Liner
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
Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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Coward Emergency Himself Legs Thinking
Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
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Blessing Exception Leaving Money
There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two clarinets.
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Instrument Worst
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
Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.
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Age Head Himself See Thinking Wisdom
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
Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
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Best Gift God Man
He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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Alarm Difficult Himself Thinking
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
Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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Death Edit Revision Sin
Scriptures – The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
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Faith Holy Ourselves Religion Scripture Writing

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