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Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

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Forgetfulness – a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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Conscience Destitution Forget Gift God
Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
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Average Perseverance Success Virtue
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
I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
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Myself Reputation Thinking
Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
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Beautiful Death Essential Example Poison
Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else
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Electricity Natural Reason
To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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Accident Eyes Failure Perspective Success
ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
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Blacksmith Cloth Kind Man
The partisan strife in which the people of the country are permitted to periodically engage does not tend to the development of ugly traits of character, but merely discloses those that preexist.
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Country Development Engagement Existence People Strife
Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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Disguise Education Understand Wisdom
Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
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Black Color Optimism White
Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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Leadership Philosophy Road
Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
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Boundary Divorce Relationship
Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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Happiness Temptation Weakness
PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another.
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Body Fortune Goodness Purity Uncomfortable
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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Brain Science Thinking

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