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Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.

Ambrose Bierce

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
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
Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
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Boundary Divorce 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
Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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God Man One Liner Reason Sleep
LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss; yet when lost it is not missed.
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Body Life Missing Spiritual
Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
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Entertainment Innocent Military Popular
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
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Convincing Doubt Enemy Man Person
Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
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Blessing Exception Leaving Money
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Love Marriage Sanity Temporary
Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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Death End Estate Himself
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
REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.
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Art Charm Measurement Nature Worm
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
Responsibility, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one’s neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.
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Astrology Custom Easy Fate God Responsibility

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