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They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.

Ambrose Bierce

Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box.
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Box Defend Democracy Stage
Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
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Children Cold Compassionate Feeling Love Mom
Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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Ambition Himself Name Patriot
Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
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Beautiful Belief Optimism Ugly
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
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Food Place Religion Service State
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
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
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
Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
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Avoid People Selfish
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
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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Fear Hope Ignorance Known Religion
ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
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Blacksmith Cloth Kind Man
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
Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
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Final Funny Rich
LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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Law Oneself Skills
Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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Machine Technology Transformation

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