Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
AMBROSE BIERCEThere are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two clarinets.
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The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
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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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LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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Laughter, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.
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Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.
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Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
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Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
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Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
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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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To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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