Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
AMBROSE BIERCEDivorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
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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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Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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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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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
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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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Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman’s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
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IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
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Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.
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April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
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Life – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
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An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
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LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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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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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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