War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
AMBROSE BIERCESelfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
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Life – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
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Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
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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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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
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Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
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Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
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Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
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Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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