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

Ambrose Bierce

Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
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Democracy Lamb Lunch Vote Wolf
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
There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two clarinets.
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Instrument Worst
The covers of this book are too far apart.
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Book Distance
He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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Alarm Difficult Himself Thinking
Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
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Appearance Art Color Fools White
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
An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
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Advantage Election Good Stolen
Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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Betrayal Character Cheating Virtue
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
Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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Arrangement Classification Ignorance Knowledge Small
Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
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Best Gift God Man
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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Degree Independence Intellectual
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
Alliance – in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other’s pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
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Each Other Hands International Separate Thief Union
PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another.
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Body Fortune Goodness Purity Uncomfortable

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