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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

Ambrose Bierce

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
The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
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Confirm Degree Democracy Reward
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
To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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Accident Eyes Failure Perspective Success
MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavour to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with.
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Brain Fact Himself Mindset Mysterious Nature
Laughter, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.
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Company Interior Laughter Noise
IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
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Fact Imagination Lying Poet
Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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Death End Estate Himself
Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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Drive Slave Substitute
Don’t steal; thou’lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
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Business Cheating Complete Steal Success
Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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Ambition Himself Name Patriot
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
Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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Assasination Harmony Instrument
True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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Man Philosophy True Woman
Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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Betrayal Character Cheating Virtue
RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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Assassination Character Weapon

Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

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