Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
AMBROSE BIERCEFear has no brains; it is an idiot.
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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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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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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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Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots.
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True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
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Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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Forgetfulness – a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
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Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
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War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
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ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
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RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.
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