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Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.

Ambrose Bierce

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
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
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
LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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Law Oneself Skills
Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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Disappointment Perspective Time
April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
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Add Fools Funny Himself Time
War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
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God Place Teaching War
They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.
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Animal Born Egg Loud Lying
Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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Labor Pregnant Property
The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.
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Affection Creature Dog World
RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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Assassination Character Weapon
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
IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
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Fact Imagination Lying Poet
Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.
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Age Head Himself See Thinking Wisdom
Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
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Division Domain Forever Hope Present
Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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Machine Technology Transformation

Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.

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