IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
AMBROSE BIERCEEdible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
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The partisan strife in which the people of the country are permitted to periodically engage does not tend to the development of ugly traits of character, but merely discloses those that preexist.
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ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.
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Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
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He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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The covers of this book are too far apart.
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Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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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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Responsibility, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one’s neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.
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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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Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
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Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
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RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.
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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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