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Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.

Ambrose Bierce

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
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Angry Best Regret Talk Yourself
There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don’t know.
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Adventure Knowledge Old Sun Wisdom
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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Evil Existence Philosophy Replacement
Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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Disappointment Perspective Time
Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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Machine Technology Transformation
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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Art Charm Measurement Nature Worm
There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two clarinets.
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Instrument Worst
PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.
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Contrast Fall Sense
Life – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
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Body Decay Life Selfish
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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Fake Fools History Important Rule
Prescription: A physician’s guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
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Harm Patient Prescription Situation
Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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God Man One Liner Reason Sleep
Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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Betrayal Character Cheating Virtue
War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
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God Place Teaching War
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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Age Head Himself See Thinking Wisdom
What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.
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Believe Country Democracy Oneself Ruin

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