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Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

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Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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Leadership Philosophy Road
War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
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God Place Teaching War
IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
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Fact Imagination Lying Poet
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
RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.
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Delusion Experience Observation Reflection Save
LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss; yet when lost it is not missed.
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Body Life Missing Spiritual
Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
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Entertainment Innocent Military Popular
Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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Happiness Temptation Weakness
Don’t steal; thou’lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
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Business Cheating Complete Steal Success
Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
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Final Funny Rich
Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
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Community Marriage Master Mistress Slave
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
Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else
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Electricity Natural Reason
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
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Convincing Doubt Enemy Man Person
You don’t have to be stupid to be a Christian, but it probably helps.
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Help Religion Stupidity
Scriptures – The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
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Faith Holy Ourselves Religion Scripture Writing

Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

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