Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
AMBROSE BIERCEAlliance – in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other’s pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
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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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Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
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Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
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I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
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Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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Prescription: A physician’s guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
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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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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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They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.
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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
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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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Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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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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ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
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