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Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.

Ambrose Bierce

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
Life – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
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Body Decay Life Selfish
Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
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Entertainment Innocent Military Popular
LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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Law Oneself Skills
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
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
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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Alarm Difficult Himself Thinking
Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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Machine Technology Transformation
A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.
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Marriage People Person Support
Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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Coward Emergency Himself Legs Thinking
The partisan strife in which the people of the country are permitted to periodically engage does not tend to the development of ugly traits of character, but merely discloses those that preexist.
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Country Development Engagement Existence People Strife
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
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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Device Profit Responsibility
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
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

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