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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

Ambrose Bierce

Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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Arrangement Classification Ignorance Knowledge Small
The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.
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Affection Creature Dog World
MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people’s beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.
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Belief Body History Invention Original People True
The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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Fall Hard Himself Man
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
IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
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Fact Imagination Lying Poet
The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
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Confirm Degree Democracy Reward
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
Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
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Entertainment Innocent Military Popular
REFLECTION,n: An Action of the mind whereby we obtain a clearer view of our relation to the things of yesterday and are able to avoid the perils that we shall not again encounter.
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Avoid Mindset Ourselves Reflection Relationship
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
Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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Disguised Patience Virtue
Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
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Beautiful Belief Optimism Ugly
Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
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Average Perseverance Success 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
Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
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Best Gift God Man

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

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