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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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Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
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Boundary Divorce Relationship
Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
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Death Money Person Praise Wealth
Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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Drive Slave Substitute
Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
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Ambition Death Desire Enemy Friendship
Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
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Blessing Exception Leaving Money
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
Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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Coward Emergency Himself Legs Thinking
Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
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Confession Law Prayer Universe Worth
Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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Assasination Harmony Instrument
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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Device Profit Responsibility
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
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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Brain Science Thinking
Life – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
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Body Decay Life Selfish
Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box.
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Box Defend Democracy Stage
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
Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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Leadership Philosophy Road

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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