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Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.

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Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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Drive Slave Substitute
Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.
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Governement Party Prevent Rival Run
Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box.
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Box Defend Democracy Stage
Life – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
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Body Decay Life Selfish
LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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Law Oneself Skills
Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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Leadership Philosophy Road
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
ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
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Blacksmith Cloth Kind Man
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
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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Degree Independence Intellectual
Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize.
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Country Discover Fertilization Person
April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
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Add Fools Funny Himself Time
The covers of this book are too far apart.
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Book Distance
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
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Analysis Delusion Himself Philosophy
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

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