Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
AMBROSE BIERCEEloquence, 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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Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.
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An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
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Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
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Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
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Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.
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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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Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else
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The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.
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You don’t have to be stupid to be a Christian, but it probably helps.
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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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