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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

There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don’t know.
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Adventure Knowledge Old Sun Wisdom
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
Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
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Ambition Death Desire Enemy Friendship
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
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
Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
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Children Cold Compassionate Feeling Love Mom
Life – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
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Body Decay Life Selfish
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
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
True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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Man Philosophy True Woman
Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box.
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Box Defend Democracy Stage
He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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Alarm Difficult Himself Thinking
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
Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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Ambition Himself Name Patriot
War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
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God Place Teaching War
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
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Analysis Delusion Himself Philosophy
LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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Law Oneself Skills
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
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
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
Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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Betrayal Character Cheating Virtue
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Love Marriage Sanity Temporary
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
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Food Place Religion Service State
The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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Fall Hard Himself Man
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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Degree Independence Intellectual
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
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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Act Repeat Word

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