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Distance, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs and keep.

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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
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
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
Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box.
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Box Defend Democracy Stage
The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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Fall Hard Himself Man
Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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Himself Listening Person Talk
Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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Labor Pregnant Property
They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.
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Animal Born Egg Loud Lying
RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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Assassination Character Weapon
Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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Disguised Patience Virtue
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
Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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Leadership Philosophy Road
A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.
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Marriage People Person Support
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
Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots.
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Appearance Earth Face Genius God Leaving Nature Original Root Woman
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Love Marriage Sanity Temporary

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