Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
AMBROSE BIERCEQuotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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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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He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity. A fool is a natural proselyte, but he must be caught young, for his convictions, unlike those of the wise, harden with age.
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To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
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War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
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True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
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Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
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ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.
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Prescription: A physician’s guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
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Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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Don’t steal; thou’lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
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The covers of this book are too far apart.
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Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.
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Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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