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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

Ambrose Bierce

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
Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
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Community Marriage Master Mistress Slave
Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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Drive Slave Substitute
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
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Evil Existence Philosophy Replacement
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
Alliance – in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other’s pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
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Each Other Hands International Separate Thief Union
Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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Machine Technology Transformation
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
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
Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
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Entertainment Innocent Military Popular
Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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Happiness Temptation Weakness
Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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Disappointment Perspective Time
Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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Death Edit Revision Sin
Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
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Final Funny Rich
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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Brain Science Thinking
Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
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Average Perseverance Success Virtue

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