Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
AMBROSE BIERCEWomen 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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Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
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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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An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
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Life – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
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Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
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Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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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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I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
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MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people’s beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.
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Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.
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PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another.
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Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
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Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
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