Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
AMBROSE BIERCESweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
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They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.
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A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.
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April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
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Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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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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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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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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An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
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The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
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In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.
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The covers of this book are too far apart.
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Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
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Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
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