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Life – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Ambrose Bierce

Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
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Average Perseverance Success Virtue
The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.
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Affection Creature Dog World
Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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Labor Pregnant Property
Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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Arrangement Classification Ignorance Knowledge Small
Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.
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Breathe Conversation Listening Vocal
Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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Leadership Philosophy Road
Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else
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Electricity Natural Reason
Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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Coward Emergency Himself Legs Thinking
MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people’s beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.
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Belief Body History Invention Original People True
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
Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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Himself Listening Person Talk
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
An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
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Advantage Election Good Stolen
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
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Evil Existence Philosophy Replacement
Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
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Beautiful Belief Optimism Ugly
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

Life – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

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