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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

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Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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Assasination Harmony Instrument
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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Act Repeat Word
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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Community Marriage Master Mistress Slave
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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Brain Science Thinking
Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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Death Edit Revision Sin
The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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Fall Hard Himself Man
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
Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
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Average Perseverance Success Virtue
Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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Himself Listening Person Talk
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 each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.
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Activity Diversity Equality Heart Human
Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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Leadership Philosophy Road
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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Fear Hope Ignorance Known Religion
IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
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Fact Imagination Lying Poet
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
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

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