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Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.

Ambrose Bierce

Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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Ambition Himself Name Patriot
The covers of this book are too far apart.
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Book Distance
Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
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Avoid People Selfish
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
Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
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Boundary Divorce Relationship
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
Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else
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Electricity Natural Reason
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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Brain Science Thinking
Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
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Brain Fear Idiot One Liner
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
Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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Labor Pregnant Property
Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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Happiness Temptation Weakness
Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman’s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
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Country Fools Freedom Instrument Power
Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
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Ambition Death Desire Enemy Friendship
Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
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Democracy Lamb Lunch Vote Wolf
Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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Death End Estate Himself

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