Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
AMBROSE BIERCEWine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
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Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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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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Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
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Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
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Laughter, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.
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Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
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Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.
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To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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