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He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.

Ambrose Bierce

The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
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Confirm Degree Democracy Reward
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
Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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Assasination Harmony Instrument
An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
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Advantage Election Good Stolen
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
Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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Leadership Philosophy Road
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
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
Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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Happiness Temptation Weakness
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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Act Repeat Word
Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else
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Electricity Natural Reason
Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
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Affair Assurance Future Happiness Prosperity Time
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
Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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Ambition Himself Name Patriot
The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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Fall Hard Himself Man
Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor.
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Believe Divine Need Neighbor Religion Spiritual

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