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Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.

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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
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
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Evil Existence Philosophy Replacement
There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two clarinets.
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Instrument Worst
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
Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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Ambition Himself Name Patriot
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
He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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Alarm Difficult Himself Thinking
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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Degree Independence Intellectual
Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box.
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Box Defend Democracy Stage
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
Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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Death End Estate Himself
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
Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize.
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Country Discover Fertilization Person
Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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Machine Technology Transformation
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
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Angry Best Regret Talk Yourself
Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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Betrayal Character Cheating Virtue

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