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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.

Ambrose Bierce

Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
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Brain Fear Idiot One Liner
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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Device Profit Responsibility
The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
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Confirm Degree Democracy Reward
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
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Food Place Religion Service State
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
Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
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Animal Digest Eat Goodness Man Science
Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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Ambition Himself Name Patriot
To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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Accident Eyes Failure Perspective Success
Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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Betrayal Character Cheating Virtue
Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
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Average Perseverance Success Virtue
Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize.
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Country Discover Fertilization Person
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
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Angry Best Regret Talk Yourself
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
LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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Law Oneself Skills
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
April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
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Add Fools Funny Himself Time

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