A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.
AMBROSE BIERCEPerseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
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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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Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
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Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
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ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
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Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
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The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
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Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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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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Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
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Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.
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Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
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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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Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
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