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

Ambrose Bierce

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
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Children Cold Compassionate Feeling Love Mom
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
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Art Human Limitation Reason Thinking Understand
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
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
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Food Place Religion Service State
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
He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity. A fool is a natural proselyte, but he must be caught young, for his convictions, unlike those of the wise, harden with age.
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Age Believe Fools Hard Thinking Wisdom Young
Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
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Boundary Divorce Relationship
Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
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Entertainment Innocent Military Popular
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
ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.
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Concession Demand Resort
Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else
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Electricity Natural Reason
Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
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Final Funny Rich
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
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Fake Fools History Important Rule
The covers of this book are too far apart.
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Book Distance
Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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Coward Emergency Himself Legs Thinking
Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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Death End Estate Himself

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