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

Ambrose Bierce

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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Fear Hope Ignorance Known Religion
RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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Assassination Character Weapon
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
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
Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else
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Electricity Natural Reason
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
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Analysis Delusion Himself Philosophy
Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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Drive Slave Substitute
Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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Leadership Philosophy Road
Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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Betrayal Character Cheating Virtue
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
To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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Accident Eyes Failure Perspective Success
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
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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Degree Independence Intellectual
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
Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
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Blessing Exception Leaving Money
Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
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Democracy Lamb Lunch Vote Wolf

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