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

Ambrose Bierce

Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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Disappointment Perspective Time
Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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Disguised Patience Virtue
Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else
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Electricity Natural Reason
Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
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Entertainment Innocent Military Popular
Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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Betrayal Character Cheating Virtue
PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.
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Contrast Fall Sense
Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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Disguise Education Understand Wisdom
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
Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
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Final Funny Rich
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
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Analysis Delusion Himself Philosophy
Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
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Black Color Optimism White
Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
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Avoid People Selfish
Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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Ambition Himself Name Patriot
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
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Care Civilization Government Intelligence Ourselves Reward
True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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Man Philosophy True Woman
MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavour to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with.
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Brain Fact Himself Mindset Mysterious Nature

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