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Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

Ambrose Bierce

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
There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two clarinets.
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Instrument Worst
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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Degree Independence Intellectual
To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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Accident Eyes Failure Perspective Success
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
Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
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Affair Assurance Future Happiness Prosperity Time
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
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
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Care Civilization Government Intelligence Ourselves Reward
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
You don’t have to be stupid to be a Christian, but it probably helps.
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Help Religion Stupidity
Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
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Boundary Divorce Relationship
Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else
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Electricity Natural Reason
Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
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Average Perseverance Success Virtue
An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
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Advantage Election Good Stolen
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
REFLECTION,n: An Action of the mind whereby we obtain a clearer view of our relation to the things of yesterday and are able to avoid the perils that we shall not again encounter.
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Avoid Mindset Ourselves Reflection Relationship

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