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Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.

Ambrose Bierce

Forgetfulness – a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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Conscience Destitution Forget Gift God
Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box.
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Box Defend Democracy Stage
Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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Drive Slave Substitute
Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.
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Governement Party Prevent Rival Run
I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
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Myself Reputation Thinking
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
LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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Law Oneself Skills
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
To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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Accident Eyes Failure Perspective Success
April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
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Add Fools Funny Himself Time
Life – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
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Body Decay Life Selfish
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
War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
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God Place Teaching War
Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman’s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
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Country Fools Freedom Instrument Power
In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.
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Activity Diversity Equality Heart Human
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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Fear Hope Ignorance Known Religion

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