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The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.

Ambrose Bierce

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
Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
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Blessing Exception Leaving Money
Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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Machine Technology Transformation
Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
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Final Funny Rich
Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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Death Edit Revision Sin
MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people’s beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.
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Belief Body History Invention Original People True
Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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Drive Slave Substitute
The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
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Confirm Degree Democracy Reward
RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.
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Delusion Experience Observation Reflection Save
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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Brain Science Thinking
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
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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Device Profit Responsibility
Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.
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Belief Manifestation Opinion Statement
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
Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man – who has no gills.
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Body Man Ocean World
LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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Law Oneself Skills

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