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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Ambrose Bierce

War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
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God Place Teaching War
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
To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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Accident Eyes Failure Perspective Success
Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
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Black Color Optimism White
Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
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Avoid People Selfish
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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Device Profit Responsibility
RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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Assassination Character Weapon
Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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Happiness Temptation Weakness
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
Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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Labor Pregnant Property
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
The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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Fall Hard Himself Man
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
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
Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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Leadership Philosophy Road
LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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Law Oneself Skills

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