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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.

Ambrose Bierce

Life – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
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Body Decay Life Selfish
ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
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Blacksmith Cloth Kind Man
Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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Himself Listening Person Talk
Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
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Best Gift God Man
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
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Food Place Religion Service State
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
Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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Machine Technology Transformation
Distance, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs and keep.
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Call Distance Poor Rich Willing
Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
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Death Money Person Praise Wealth
You don’t have to be stupid to be a Christian, but it probably helps.
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Help Religion Stupidity
I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
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Myself Reputation Thinking
Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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Disguise Education Understand Wisdom
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
REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.
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Art Charm Measurement Nature Worm
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
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Advantage Affair Interest Principle Private
Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man – who has no gills.
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Body Man Ocean World

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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