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

Ambrose Bierce

Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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Labor Pregnant Property
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
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
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
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Care Civilization Government Intelligence Ourselves Reward
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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Device Profit Responsibility
He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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Alarm Difficult Himself Thinking
What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.
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Believe Country Democracy Oneself Ruin
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
Life – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
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Body Decay Life Selfish
Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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Drive Slave Substitute
Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else
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Electricity Natural Reason
Alliance – in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other’s pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
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Each Other Hands International Separate Thief Union
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
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
Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
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Average Perseverance Success Virtue
There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two clarinets.
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Instrument Worst

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

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