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Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize.

Ambrose Bierce

REFLECTION,n: An Action of the mind whereby we obtain a clearer view of our relation to the things of yesterday and are able to avoid the perils that we shall not again encounter.
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Avoid Mindset Ourselves Reflection Relationship
Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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Happiness Temptation Weakness
He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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Alarm Difficult Himself Thinking
Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor.
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Believe Divine Need Neighbor Religion Spiritual
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
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
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
Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
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Democracy Lamb Lunch Vote Wolf
Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
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Animal Digest Eat Goodness Man Science
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
Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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Death Edit Revision Sin
Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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Machine Technology Transformation
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
April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
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Add Fools Funny Himself Time
Responsibility, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one’s neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.
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Astrology Custom Easy Fate God Responsibility
War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
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God Place Teaching War

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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