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Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

Ambrose Bierce

The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
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Confirm Degree Democracy Reward
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
Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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Machine Technology Transformation
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
LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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Law Oneself Skills
Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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Arrangement Classification Ignorance Knowledge Small
Forgetfulness – a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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Conscience Destitution Forget Gift God
Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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Himself Listening Person Talk
What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.
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Believe Country Democracy Oneself Ruin
IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
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Fact Imagination Lying Poet
Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
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Black Color Optimism White
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
PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.
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Contrast Fall Sense
Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
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Animal Digest Eat Goodness Man Science
Don’t steal; thou’lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
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Business Cheating Complete Steal Success
There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don’t know.
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Adventure Knowledge Old Sun Wisdom

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