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Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.

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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
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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Degree Independence Intellectual
Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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Disguised Patience Virtue
Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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Death End Estate Himself
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
Responsibility, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one’s neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.
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Astrology Custom Easy Fate God Responsibility
Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
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Brain Fear Idiot One Liner
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
They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.
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Animal Born Egg Loud Lying
True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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Man Philosophy True Woman
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
Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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Leadership Philosophy Road
MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavour to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with.
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Brain Fact Himself Mindset Mysterious Nature
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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Act Repeat Word
Laughter, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.
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Company Interior Laughter Noise

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