The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
AMBROSE BIERCEREALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.
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Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.
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Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man – who has no gills.
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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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Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor.
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Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
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Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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