Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else
AMBROSE BIERCEULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.
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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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Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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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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PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.
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Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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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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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
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There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don’t know.
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Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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You don’t have to be stupid to be a Christian, but it probably helps.
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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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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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