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Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else

Ambrose Bierce

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
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Food Place Religion Service State
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
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Angry Best Regret Talk Yourself
Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.
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Belief Manifestation Opinion Statement
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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Device Profit Responsibility
ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
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Blacksmith Cloth Kind Man
Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
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Best Gift God Man
He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity. A fool is a natural proselyte, but he must be caught young, for his convictions, unlike those of the wise, harden with age.
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Age Believe Fools Hard Thinking Wisdom Young
Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
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Division Domain Forever Hope Present
PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.
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Contrast Fall Sense
Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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Assasination Harmony Instrument
REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.
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Art Charm Measurement Nature Worm
The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
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Confirm Degree Democracy Reward
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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Degree Independence Intellectual
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
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
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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Act Repeat Word

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