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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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He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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Alarm Difficult Himself Thinking
Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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Leadership Philosophy Road
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
Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
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Affair Assurance Future Happiness Prosperity Time
Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.
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Breathe Conversation Listening Vocal
Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.
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Belief Manifestation Opinion Statement
ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.
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Concession Demand Resort
The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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Fall Hard Himself Man
Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
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Animal Digest Eat Goodness Man Science
Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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God Man One Liner Reason Sleep
Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
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Average Perseverance Success Virtue
Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
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Black Color Optimism White
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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Degree Independence Intellectual
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
Alliance – in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other’s pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
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Each Other Hands International Separate Thief Union
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

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