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

Ambrose Bierce

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
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Children Cold Compassionate Feeling Love Mom
Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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Leadership Philosophy Road
Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
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Blessing Exception Leaving Money
April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
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Add Fools Funny Himself Time
The covers of this book are too far apart.
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Book Distance
Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.
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Age Head Himself See Thinking Wisdom
Life – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
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Body Decay Life Selfish
LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss; yet when lost it is not missed.
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Body Life Missing Spiritual
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
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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Fear Hope Ignorance Known Religion
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
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
PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.
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Contrast Fall Sense
The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
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Confirm Degree Democracy Reward
What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.
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Believe Country Democracy Oneself Ruin
Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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Assasination Harmony Instrument

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