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

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Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots.
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Appearance Earth Face Genius God Leaving Nature Original Root Woman
Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
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Best Gift God Man
Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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Disguise Education Understand Wisdom
Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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Death End Estate Himself
Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
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Appearance Art Color Fools White
Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
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Entertainment Innocent Military Popular
Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
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Affair Assurance Future Happiness Prosperity Time
April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
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Add Fools Funny Himself Time
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
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
The covers of this book are too far apart.
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Book Distance
Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
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Democracy Lamb Lunch Vote Wolf
Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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Machine Technology Transformation
A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.
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Marriage People Person Support
LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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Law Oneself Skills
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

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

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