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

Ambrose Bierce

Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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Drive Slave Substitute
Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
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Avoid People Selfish
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
There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don’t know.
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Adventure Knowledge Old Sun Wisdom
LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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Law Oneself Skills
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
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Fake Fools History Important Rule
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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Community Marriage Master Mistress Slave
Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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Disguised Patience Virtue
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
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Art Human Limitation Reason Thinking Understand
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
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
Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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Himself Listening Person Talk
A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.
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Marriage People Person Support
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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Degree Independence Intellectual
Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
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Beautiful Belief Optimism Ugly
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
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Convincing Doubt Enemy Man Person

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

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