IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
AMBROSE BIERCEElectricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else
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Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
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Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man – who has no gills.
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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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Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
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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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Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
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Forgetfulness – a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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Life – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
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Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
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Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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