Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
AMBROSE BIERCEPAIN, 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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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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Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.
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Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
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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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Life – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
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Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
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True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.
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There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two clarinets.
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Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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Don’t steal; thou’lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
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IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
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Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
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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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