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There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don’t know.

Ambrose Bierce

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
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
Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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Drive Slave Substitute
To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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Accident Eyes Failure Perspective Success
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
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
An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
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Advantage Election Good Stolen
Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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God Man One Liner Reason Sleep
RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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Assassination Character Weapon
ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.
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Concession Demand Resort
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
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
Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
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Death Money Person Praise Wealth
ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
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Blacksmith Cloth Kind Man
The covers of this book are too far apart.
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Book Distance
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

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