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Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.

Ambrose Bierce

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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Activity Diversity Equality Heart Human
LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss; yet when lost it is not missed.
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He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity. A fool is a natural proselyte, but he must be caught young, for his convictions, unlike those of the wise, harden with age.
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Age Believe Fools Hard Thinking Wisdom Young
Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman’s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
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Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
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The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
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Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.
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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
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Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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REFLECTION,n: An Action of the mind whereby we obtain a clearer view of our relation to the things of yesterday and are able to avoid the perils that we shall not again encounter.
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Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
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Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two clarinets.
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PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another.
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Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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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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