Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else
AMBROSE BIERCELabor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
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Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
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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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Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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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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They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.
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Distance, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs and keep.
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MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people’s beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.
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The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box.
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LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
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Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.
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