Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
AMBROSE BIERCEWhat is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.
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Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.
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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.
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Women 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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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
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Forgetfulness – a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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You don’t have to be stupid to be a Christian, but it probably helps.
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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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Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
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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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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.
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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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