To the eye of failure success is an accident.
AMBROSE BIERCESelfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
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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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I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
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Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
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Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
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April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
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Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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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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Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize.
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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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Consul – in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.
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Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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