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Scriptures – The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.

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Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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Labor Pregnant Property
IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
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Fact Imagination Lying Poet
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
Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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Coward Emergency Himself Legs Thinking
Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
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Brain Fear Idiot One Liner
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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Avoid Mindset Ourselves Reflection Relationship
Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
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Final Funny Rich
Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else
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Electricity Natural Reason
Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
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Blessing Exception Leaving Money
There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two clarinets.
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Instrument Worst
Prescription: A physician’s guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
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Harm Patient Prescription Situation
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
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Convincing Doubt Enemy Man Person
I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
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Myself Reputation Thinking
Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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Arrangement Classification Ignorance Knowledge Small
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
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Advantage Affair Interest Principle Private
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

Scriptures – The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.

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