Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
AMBROSE BIERCELitigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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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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April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
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Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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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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Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
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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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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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RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box.
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Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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