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

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

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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
Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
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Confession Law Prayer Universe Worth
Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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Drive Slave Substitute
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
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Advantage Affair Interest Principle Private
Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
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Beautiful Belief Optimism Ugly
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
Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
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Children Cold Compassionate Feeling Love Mom
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Love Marriage Sanity Temporary
Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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Machine Technology Transformation
Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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Himself Listening Person Talk
Consul – in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.
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Administration Condition Country Failure Himself Leaving Person Politics Security
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
Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
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Blessing Exception Leaving Money
The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.
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Affection Creature Dog World
LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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Law Oneself Skills
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

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