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«Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad»
Author: Baruch Spinoza
(Philosopher)
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Sin
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conceived, consent, decreed, natural state
«TAIL, n. The part of an animal's spine that has transcended its natural limitations to set up an independent existence in a world of its own. Excepting in its foetal state, Man is without a tail, a privation of which he attests an hereditary and uneasy consciousness by the coat-skirt of the male and the train of the female, and by a marked tendency to ornament that part of his attire where the tail should be, and indubitably once was. This tendency is most observable in the female of the species, in whom the ancestral sense is strong and persistent. The tailed men described by Lord Monboddo are now generally regarded as a product of an imagination unusually susceptible to influences generated in the golden age of our pithecan past.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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ancestral, attests, attired, foetal, generated, indubitably, natural state, observable, privation, privations, spine, spines, tailed, tail coat, The Golden Age, transcended, uneasy, unusually
«TEDIUM, n. Ennui, the state or condition of one that is bored. Many fanciful derivations of the word have been affirmed, but so high an authority as Father Jape says that it comes from a very obvious source --the first words of the ancient Latin hymn _Te Deum Laudamus_. In this apparently natural derivation there is something that saddens.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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Affirmed, apparently, derivation, derivations, ennui, fanciful, hymn, jape, Latin, natural state, saddened, saddening, saddens, tedium
«When any one State in the American Union refuses obedience to the Confederation by which they have bound themselves, the rest have a natural right to compel them to obedience»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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Obedience
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American union, compel, confederation, Natural right, natural state, obedience, refuses
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