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Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

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ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
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Blacksmith Cloth Kind Man
Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
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Beautiful Belief Optimism Ugly
Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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Ambition Himself Name Patriot
LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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Law Oneself Skills
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
Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
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Entertainment Innocent Military Popular
Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
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Blessing Exception Leaving Money
Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman’s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
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Country Fools Freedom Instrument Power
An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
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Advantage Election Good Stolen
Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
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Democracy Lamb Lunch Vote Wolf
True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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Man Philosophy True Woman
Forgetfulness – a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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Conscience Destitution Forget Gift God
Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
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Division Domain Forever Hope Present
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
He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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Alarm Difficult Himself Thinking
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

Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

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