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He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.

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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
Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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Drive Slave Substitute
War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
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God Place Teaching War
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
Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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Labor Pregnant Property
Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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God Man One Liner Reason Sleep
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
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
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
Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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Disappointment Perspective Time
Laughter, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.
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Company Interior Laughter Noise
Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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Assasination Harmony Instrument
Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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Leadership Philosophy Road
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
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Convincing Doubt Enemy Man Person
Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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Machine Technology Transformation
Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
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Black Color Optimism White

He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.

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