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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
Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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Leadership Philosophy Road
Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize.
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Country Discover Fertilization Person
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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Device Profit Responsibility
Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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Labor Pregnant Property
Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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God Man One Liner Reason Sleep
Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
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Ambition Death Desire Enemy Friendship
The partisan strife in which the people of the country are permitted to periodically engage does not tend to the development of ugly traits of character, but merely discloses those that preexist.
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Country Development Engagement Existence People Strife
ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.
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Concession Demand Resort
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
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Love Marriage Sanity Temporary
Prescription: A physician’s guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
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Harm Patient Prescription Situation
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
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
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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Act Repeat Word
IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
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Fact Imagination Lying Poet
Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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Disguised Patience Virtue
Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box.
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Box Defend Democracy Stage
War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
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God Place Teaching War
REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.
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Art Charm Measurement Nature Worm
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
PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.
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Contrast Fall Sense
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
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Analysis Delusion Himself Philosophy
Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man – who has no gills.
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Body Man Ocean World
LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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Law Oneself Skills
You don’t have to be stupid to be a Christian, but it probably helps.
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Help Religion Stupidity
Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
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Blessing Exception Leaving Money

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