Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
AMBROSE BIERCEAbsurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.
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Consul – in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.
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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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PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.
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Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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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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April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
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Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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You don’t have to be stupid to be a Christian, but it probably helps.
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War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
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Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
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IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
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