Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
AMBROSE BIERCEPatience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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Prescription: A physician’s guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
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Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
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The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
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REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.
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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
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PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another.
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Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
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I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
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The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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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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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
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