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

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

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Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
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Confession Law Prayer Universe Worth
RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.
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Delusion Experience Observation Reflection Save
REFLECTION,n: An Action of the mind whereby we obtain a clearer view of our relation to the things of yesterday and are able to avoid the perils that we shall not again encounter.
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Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
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Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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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
Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.
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Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
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Children Cold Compassionate Feeling Love Mom
Life – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
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Body Decay Life Selfish
Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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Drive Slave Substitute
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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Degree Independence Intellectual
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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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
Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor.
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Believe Divine Need Neighbor Religion Spiritual
Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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Coward Emergency Himself Legs Thinking
There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don’t know.
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Adventure Knowledge Old Sun Wisdom

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