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

Ambrose Bierce

Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
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Entertainment Innocent Military Popular
Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
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Brain Fear Idiot One Liner
Life – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
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Body Decay Life Selfish
Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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Labor Pregnant Property
Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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Himself Listening Person Talk
LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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Law Oneself Skills
The covers of this book are too far apart.
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Book Distance
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
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
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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Degree Independence Intellectual
RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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Assassination Character Weapon
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
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Fake Fools History Important Rule
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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Belief Body History Invention Original People True
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
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Food Place Religion Service State
Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
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Beautiful Belief Optimism Ugly
PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another.
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Body Fortune Goodness Purity Uncomfortable

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

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