The covers of this book are too far apart.
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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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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Don’t steal; thou’lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
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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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Distance, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs and keep.
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Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
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Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
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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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Forgetfulness – a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
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The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.
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Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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