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Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.

Ambrose Bierce

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
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Analysis Delusion Himself Philosophy
Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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Betrayal Character Cheating Virtue
MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavour to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with.
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Brain Fact Himself Mindset Mysterious Nature
The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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Fall Hard Himself Man
Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
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Brain Fear Idiot One Liner
There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don’t know.
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Adventure Knowledge Old Sun Wisdom
LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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Law Oneself Skills
There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two clarinets.
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Instrument Worst
War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
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God Place Teaching War
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
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
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Love Marriage Sanity Temporary
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
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Evil Existence Philosophy Replacement
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
You don’t have to be stupid to be a Christian, but it probably helps.
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Help Religion Stupidity
Forgetfulness – a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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Conscience Destitution Forget Gift God

Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.

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